Dispatch from the Front

Today I have a piece of proper journalism up at the website Dispatch, in which I try to shine a light on the insanity of local wheelchair services in England.

Just to spell that out: I was in hospital, paralysed. I could not leave hospital until I had a wheelchair. The local wheelchair service notified me that I wouldn’t be getting a wheelchair by writing to my home address, which I could not reach, because I was in a hospital. Without a wheelchair.

So began my involvement with Britain’s wheelchair services.

You can read the piece here.

UPDATE: Gift link for promotional free access here

Dispatch is a new website which specialises in long-form reporting focusing on typically neglected corners of society. It is excellent. (I am a paying subscriber, since before I pitched this piece.)

You may have to register using your email to get access to my article in its entirety, but it should be free. But consider taking out a subscription anyway, for access to quality journalism that you just do not find anywhere else at the moment.