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 Post subject: just realised...
PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 8:41 pm 
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regarding the 100% WAV/hack requirements of some LA's, i did ambulance service PTS work for several years including taking 1 guy to hospital 3 times a week 52 weeks of the year, he was in a wheelchair but never got sent a WAV, he used to transfer to my cars front seat and his chair went in the boot. If anyone should have been a guaranteed WAV passenger it was him.

its actually quite condescending to imagine every person in a chair needs to be pushed up a ramp and strapped down like a pallet on a truck........

still, the planners know best

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 Post subject: Re: just realised...
PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 12:46 am 
wannabeeahack wrote:
regarding the 100% WAV/hack requirements of some LA's, i did ambulance service PTS work for several years including taking 1 guy to hospital 3 times a week 52 weeks of the year, he was in a wheelchair but never got sent a WAV, he used to transfer to my cars front seat and his chair went in the boot. If anyone should have been a guaranteed WAV passenger it was him.

its actually quite condescending to imagine every person in a chair needs to be pushed up a ramp and strapped down like a pallet on a truck........

still, the planners know best



I agree, and most chair bound folks I meet want to come with me in the saloon, my theory is it's like a temporary escape from the chair, something else for consideration, a frog may live in water, but sometimes he likes to sit on a rock.


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 Post subject: Re: just realised...
PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:49 am 
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if choice is a human right shouldnt those in wheelchairs have the choice?....

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