Our Services A - Z - Wheelchair services

This is a specialist Wheelchair Service for patients registered with GPs in Chorley and South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Southport and Formby patients have a separate service provided by Mersey Care.

We are a community-based service and see adults and children who are permanently disabled resulting in them being completely immobile indoors as well as outdoors and who need to use a wheelchair for all their mobility. This is a therapy-led service.

The Wheelchair Assessment Team is a multidisciplinary therapy team of occupational therapists, assistant practitioners, therapy assistants and engineers.

Following assessment, recommendations will be made via a Wheelchair Service prescription and support plan.

The service offers personal wheelchair budgets which means the individual then has a choice of provision – that is to have a wheelchair free of charge from the NHS or to opt for provision via a third party provider.

For wheelchair user’s registered with the service, we have skilled maintenance and repair staff who will either repair your chair at home or supply a temporary loan manual wheelchair until the repairs can be carried out. Repair costs will normally be paid for by us unless in the case of misuse or negligence.

The repair service is available on 01695 556492 Monday - Friday 8am - 4:30pm. Extended hours are no longer provided.