Services A to Z

The WestMARC Wheelchair and Seating Service provides wheelchairs (manual and powered) and children’s buggies, with postural supports if required, to people requiring wheeled mobility that are living in the West of Scotland. Services provided include: 

• Clinical assessments
• Provision of equipment (wheelchairs, buggies, seating systems) tailored to patient’s needs 
• Equipment repairs

Our team consists of administrative staff, technical staff, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, clinical scientists (bioengineers), nursing/medical staff and clinical psychology staff.

Making A Referral

Clinic Locations

Clinics are conducted within the centre and at many satellite locations across the West of Scotland. Your appointment letter will specify the location of your appointment.

There is also a depot where the service’s equipment store, repair facility and technicians are located.

Drop in repairs available Monday to Friday 9.00am to 3.45pm.

The Motherwell hub is a smaller unit and we are unable to hold all parts, so please call 0300 790 0129 in advance to confirm parts are in stock to complete the repair. 

Satellite clinic locations

Repairs

If your chair is in need of repair you should contact the service immediately. You might find Standard Wheelchair Parts helpful for explaining what part of the chair requires a repair. 

Equipment is repaired free of charge by the service. Our mobile engineer repair service will usually visit and repair equipment at service users home or other suitable setting.   

If a complex repair is needed than it may be necessary to bring the equipment into our workshop to carry out the work. 

WestMARC Yoker depot and the WestMARC Motherwell Hub are open for drop in repairs Monday to Friday 9.00am to 3.45pm. Please see ‘Clinic Locations’ above for address details. Note, Motherwell hub is a smaller unit and we are unable to hold all parts, please call 0300 790 0129 in advance to confirm parts are in stock to complete the repair.  

Equipment is loaned by the service and it is the service user’s responsibility to keep equipment in good condition. 

Any accident or adverse incident that occurs with equipment provided from the service should be reported so that the service can record and followed up if necessary. This helps us to improve safety for all service users. 

See here for more Information about Repairs and Maintenance and Wheelchair Terms and Conditions. 

Resources 

Wheelchair Maintenance/Skills

National Wheelchair Managers Forum has created the following video guides to NHS Wheelchairs that you may find instructional.

Please see video resources created by SMART Centre, Edinburgh on wheelchair demonstration/operation. Adult Manual Wheelchair video demonstrates transporting manual wheelchair into a vehicle.

The Wheelchair Skills College provide video resources on wheelchair skills including tutorials on cleaning castor wheels.  

Back Up Trust provide information on wheelchair skills courses. Please read Wheelchair Skills College disclaimer before practising skills. 

Transportation 

This video from 6:09 demonstrates how to disassemble and transport your wheelchair in the boot of a car. 

Please see Travel Safe Leaflet produced by Posture and Mobility group on transport of wheelchair seated passengers. 

Please see video demonstration produced by Motability on How to use your Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (WAV) Tie Downs or Restraints.  

The Motability Scheme helps you get mobile by exchanging your higher rate mobility allowance to lease a new affordable car, wheelchair accessible vehicle, scooter or powered wheelchair. 

Power Chair Charging

Please see following advice on charging your electric powered wheelchair: 

How to look after your Powerchair battery | Invacare – YouTube 

Other

Please see Self Management – NHSGGC toolkit developed by NRU which educates and provides references for conditions, physical activity, getting out and about, psychological wellbeing and other helpful resources.

Patient Information Leaflets

• Wheelchair Repairs
• Power Pack Leaflet
• Information about lap straps for wheelchairs
• Transporting your wheelchair
• Wheelchair – Preventing pressure ulcers
• Wheelchair Conditions of Supply
• Neurodevelopmental Differences Document
• Wheelchairs for Children

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There are multiple orthoptic clinics that cover all of Glasgow and Clyde.

South Glasgow Hospitals

North Glasgow Hospitals

Clyde Hospitals

Royal College for Sick Children Hospital

Pre-school Visual screening  

See4School is a national screening program that tests for visual defects in children during their pre-school year. Pre-school vision screening | NHS inform is carried out by a qualified Orthoptists or support workers specifically trained by orthoptists to detect reduced vision or binocular vision problems. 

This is usually carried out at the child’s nursey. If your child has been referred for further assessment they will be seen by an orthoptist and optometrist. 

Orthoptic resources  

If you have attended the orthoptic department and you or your child have been started on treatment. You can access some of our information leaflets below.

Orthoptic exercise leaflets  

• Convergence and accommodation exercises
• Stereogram exercises
• PFR bar exercises
• Fusion range exercises with a single prism

Other Useful leaflets

• Occlusion treatment information (BIOS leaflet)
• My Glasses (BIOS leaflet)
• How to fit Fresnel prism
• Information about your child’s squint

Useful Orthoptics websites

• BIOS- Vision problems after stroke or Brian injury
• BIOS- Orthoptic common conditions
• Squint clinic
  

DVLA- Vision requirements to drive (Car licence)

• can read a number plate from 20 metres away
• have no double vision
• have a normal field of vision in at least one eye (your optician can test this)

If you are unsure if you meet these standards this please discuss this with the orthoptist if you are under the orthoptic clinic. If your Orthoptist has told you you do not meet these standards please discuss with the DVLA. You can report your condition online.

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