@kelly Nah, they seemed pretty standard. I was asked to return them regardless as it made sense to me. I really don’t have a use for them. Well, apart from the fact that the scan last month revealed that I have broken my ankle before (fully healed up by now, but there’s a chip floating around) and I am still not sure how that happened.
There’s few articles suggesting they should be accepting them regardless:
> The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is spending thousands of pounds every year on replacement crutches. For every 50 pairs of crutches that are issued to patients only 10 pairs are returned.
http://www.iow.nhs.uk/news/Do-you-have-any-Crutches-or-other-Walking-Aids-that-need-returning-to-the-NHS.htm
> The trust lends more than 5,000 pairs of crutches out each year and the vast majority of them are not returned.
> Each pair of crutches costs around £13, meaning over the course of the year more than £80,000 is spent – money which could be used improving patient care.
https://www.nth.nhs.uk/news/appeal-return-crutches/
