Petition To NHS Services Nationwide To Provide Complex Wheelchairs To Everyone Who Needs Them

Readers, you may or may not have seen this before. It started circulating last night- I first saw it on Facebook.

You may or may not already have signed it.

But, readers, this is important to me because of the number of stories I have heard through my charity work of the NHS only providing basic wheelchairs. Basic wheelchairs are not always suitable and even when they are, they don't always allow independence for the disabled person.

In a basic wheelchair, disabled children can't access some of the places their siblings and friends are accessing- the park or the woods.

In a basic wheelchair the parent or carer has the added stress of pushing the disabled person while out with other children who might also need or want attention.

And then, of course, there's everything written in the petition letter.

So readers- if you haven't signed it, please do. If you have, thank you very much, and please share it with your friends.