Patients & visitors

Wheelchair stations

What are wheelchair stations?

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals are currently preparing to launch Wheelchair Stations to improve the availability and accessibility of wheelchairs across the sites, through a project generously funded by the Sheffield Hospitals Charity, to ensure that there are hospital wheelchairs readily available at key site entrances for those who need one to help them get around the site.

Once these are installed, if you, or the person you are attending with, need to access a wheelchair when arriving at the site, you will be able to release a hospital wheelchair to use as you arrive at a main hospital entrance by using a £1 coin or trolley token (which will be released back to you upon return of the wheelchair when leaving the hospital). If you are coming to the hospital and will need to access a wheelchair, please bring a £1 coin or trolley token with you. If you have any issues releasing a wheelchair, please speak to a volunteer, porter, or someone on reception, who will be able to help release a chair.

Wheelchair stations have been kindly funded by supporters of Sheffield Hospitals Charity

 

Several Wheelchair Stations will be installed across both STH hospital sites to provide dedicated spaces for storing wheelchairs for patient use. These will be well signposted and located at or near to main entrances. This is so that wheelchairs can easily be accessed and dropped off at the nearest wheelchair station (which may not be the same one it was collected from).

The current locations of Wheelchair Stations are:

Northern General Hospital

  • TBC

Central Campus (Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Jessop Wing)

  • TBC