London NHS Partnerships

Working in partnership with the NHS

Whizz-Kidz is working in partnership with Tower Hamlets NHS Primary Care Trust (PCT) to enhance wheelchair service delivery for disabled children and young people in the borough and London wide.

This initiative, launched in March 2007, is a unique partnership between the statutory services and the voluntary sector and quite different to our existing mobility centres. It’s different because we are working with the PCT and together our goal is to enhance wheelchair provision by delivering joint assessments, sharing expertise and pooling our resources to meet the individual needs of disabled children and young people.

The partnership is an opportunity to enhance the wheelchair services that are already available, and to increase access to mobility equipment that is not readily available. Families of disabled children who live in Tower Hamlets are referred to the wheelchair service or to Whizz-Kidz by their GP or therapist in the usual way.

The service is also open to families of disabled children from other London boroughs. Whizz-Kidz will contact the families’ own PCT to see if there is an opportunity to joint fund the mobility equipment.

If you live in Tower Hamlets or any other London borough, please contact us on 020 8233 8302 or email us.

This partnership was made possible thanks to funding from Lydian Asset Management.

Building on the success of our partnership with Tower Hamlets PCT, Whizz-Kidz is now working with Outer North East London Community Services to improve wheelchair provision for disabled children and young people in Barking & Dagenham, Havering and Brentwood. For more information about this partnership contact us on 020 7233 6600