Member

Amendment 571 talks about 18 days. I do not know of any system or policy that we have in this country that gets the right support to a disabled person in 18 days. It just does not exist. We must not forget that anybody with a terminal condition, by nature of that, has a disability. If I was trying to get a new wheelchair, the absolute minimum time for accessing a wheelchair through the NHS would be 18 weeks, and that is if I or another wheelchair user had the simplest wheelchair available. A complex wheelchair could take 18 months to be provided, and I have cases in my inbox where it has taken up to three or four years for a chair to be provided.