News, Updates and Events
MASS-eApply has a new form: Daily Living Aids and Mobility Equipment – Short Form. This form can be used to submit application requests for basic items that are on SOA only, including: Static or 3-in-1 commodes, over toilet aids, bath transfer benches, swivel bathseats, static shower chairs or stools, and wheeled walking aids.
MASS Equipment Services has completed their trial of basic mobility aids – manual wheelchairs, TIS manual wheelchairs and power wheelchairs.
Due to equipment availability and staffing constraints, the MASS stocklists and reallocation program of stock items from the Brisbane warehouse is temporarily on hold.
MASS Equipment Services has completed their trial of static shower chair/stools and over toilet frames. During the trial, MASS provided over 1,000 items to clients, highlighting the need for access to these static and less complex bathing and toileting aids for consumers.
Queensland Artificial Limb Service (QALS) has been granted a temporary funding increase to the annual budget from $2.6 million to $4.9 million per year, for four (4) years.
As part of MASS’s commitment to quality service provision, MASS Equipment Services is temporarily removing the mandatory requirement to trial some basic equipment items funded by MASS.