• Key Skills for Wheelchair Provision by Ruth Parker, Lauren Osborne
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Key Skills for Wheelchair Provision

A Guide for Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Wheelchair Services?
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This practical guide gives health and social care professionals straightforward and comprehensive advice on wheelchair assessment and provision. It covers how wheelchairs are provided within the UK through statutory services and the private market, the types of wheelchairs available, comprehensive assessment methods for understanding posture related to seating and taking measurements, how to build a wheelchair specification, wheelchair provision across the lifespan and environmental considerations.

This book addresses the wide range of considerations required across different professions, assisting with joint working, understanding of role and remit, and professional development within the sector. It also features the perspectives of wheelchair users themselves, as well as downloadable resources on measurements and appropriate wheelchair use and transfers.
  • Published: Jul 21 2026
  • Pages: 320
  • 244 x 172mm
  • ISBN: 9781805013969
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Press Reviews

  • Nathan Robson, Clinical Scientist, Chair of the Posture and Mobility Group (PMG)

    Key Skills for Wheelchair Provision provides an excellent and comprehensive primer on the landscape of wheelchair provision in England as well as walking the reader through the range of skills and knowledge that are required to support wheelchair users and their equipment to achieve the best outcomes for them. It draws in expertise from a range of knowledgeable practitioners and users, and the pace and structure of information presentation allows for readers to build up their understanding of each topic from the fundamentals, or to quickly dive into more advanced or specific elements of each area depending on their existing level of competence. Key Skills for Wheelchair Provision can be considered an important reference work for both practitioners and wheelchair users whether they are new to the field or looking to reassure themselves of their practice, and I have no hesitation in recommending it.

  • Bex Oakes, Posture Management Specialist Occupational Therapist and Educator

    A valuable resource, providing helpful, practical information for students, newly qualified practitioners, and clinicians new to this field.

  • Kerry Jefferson MSc, Occupational Therapist with expertise in posture management and wheelchair provision

    This book is the book I wish I had when I first thought about wheelchair services as a career path. There are decades of professional skills and knowledge in these pages freely shared. This knowledge will be of benefit to anybody involved in the assessment and provision of wheelchair, posture and pressure management solutions and those considering the environments and contexts in which wheelchairs are used, whether in statutory services or private practice.

  • Nick Goldup, CEO of Wheelchair Alliance CIC

    This publication is an excellent reference for any wheelchair therapist and highlights the complexity of holistic assessment and prescription of the right wheelchair in partnership with the wheelchair user and their families/ carers. It also demonstrates to commissioners that this is a specialist service needing specific clinical expertise.