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To: The government
Provide hoists and wide, adjustable treatment beds in all GP surgeries
I want to make it a legal requirement for all GP surgeries to make wide, adjustment treatment beds and hoists available so that disabled people can be examined effectively when ever there is a question over their physical wellbeing.
Why is this important?
In 2017 I was diagnosed with stage 4 bladder cancer. I live with Spinabifida and am a wheelchair user because I'm paralysed from above the waist down. It is not legally possible to prove, but it is my sincere belief that had I been examined earlier in the year using a hoist and adjustable wide treatment bed, my cancer may have been discovered sooner. Disabled people and particularly paralysed people, don't always feel changes in their body, so require better than average monitoring. This equipment would provide that extra safeguarding and would protect disabled people from developing further physical issues that cost huge amounts of tax payer's money to address and great distress.
