Meet the team
- Service Lead Occupational Therapist
- Specialist Seating and Wheelchair Clinicians
- Specialist Seating and Wheelchair Technical Assistants
About us
The Clinic is available to support Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) inpatient therapists with optimising seating and wheelchair provision.
Our team will support with seating selection and set up, review of existing seating provision, provision of additional postural adaptations, pressure sore management and cushion selection.
We aim to maximise independence, minimise risks and enhance the patient experience at QEHB with the provision of hospital loan seating wheelchairs, and advising on seating provision for discharge and community follow up.
Conditions we treat
We will support patients with a range of conditions that affect their seating needs, and aim to support patients who are:
- unable to sit upright in a standard chair
- have uncontrolled movements or spasms
- have joint stiffness, contracture, increased tone
- have weakness and fatigue
- have an increased risk to skin integrity
What to expect
We will provide a review session with patients to work out optimum seating options. This could be telephone advice to ward therapists or joint in-person reviews. We follow the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations for step-by-step complex seating reviews.
Through our reviews we are able to expand our range of seating, postural adaptations and cushion to meet the increasingly complex needs of our patients.
We will also provide education and training to departments and services across Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, tailored to needs.
Who we work with
We will support any therapist from supporting new members of staff to understand the process for specialist seating assessment, through to joint problem solving with experienced clinicians.
How to be referred
This service is only available for in-patients at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB).
Referral to the clinic can be made by completing a short referral form and email to the email address
An appointment will be arranged for a QEHB wheelchair clinic clinician to review the patient jointly with the referring therapist, the target will be three working days from referral or 24 hours for urgent cases.
The QEHB wheelchair clinic will support the therapist with meeting the patient’s goals as specified on the referral form.
Last reviewed: 29 September 2026