EALING Primary Care Trust's mammoth six-year waiting list for NHS electric wheelchairs was this week described as "obscene" - reports icEaling.
The waiting list, which has been calculated at 316 weeks, has got so out of hand that for a time it had to be closed to anyone wanting to get on it, (though it has now reopened).
It puts Ealing bottom out of 99 Primary Care Trust's (PCTs) in terms of waiting time for NHS electric wheelchairs.
Wiltshire's waiting list is 260 weeks, East Midlands' is 224 and Hillingdon's is closed on 156 weeks.
The revelations have prompted urgent calls from politicians for action from Ealing PCT, which funds the rental service.
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