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Phone numbers for return of physiotherapy, mobility or occupational therapy equipment.

If you were loaned but no longer use a piece of equipment belonging to NHS Highland, find out where to return it. Contacts are different for people in the Argyll and Bute area and the Highland area.

Occupational therapy (OT) equipment

Occupational therapy equipment includes items like:

  • beds, bed rails and hoists
  • tables and chairs
  • trolleys
  • raised toilet seats, other toileting and bathing items

Argyll and Bute area

Call the Integrated Equipment Service. Please give a few days' notice if you're asking for a collection of equipment - we cannot always manage uplifts the following day:

phone 01436 633 102

Read a news article about the Integrated Equipment Service.

Highland area

email nhshighland.ces@nhs.scot 

...or phone the Community Equipment Store or Housing Association in your area to arrange return:

Caithness

Pentland Housing Association
phone 01847 892507

Wick Community Equipment Store
phone 01955 880281

East and West Ross

Invergordon Community Equipment Store
phone 01349 853030

Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey

Inverness Community Equipment Store

  • phone 01463 230977 (return line answerphone)
  • phone 01463 229691 (office)

Lochaber

Lochaber Housing Association
phone 01397 706444

Lochalsh and Skye

Lochalsh & Skye Housing Association
phone 01478 612035

Sutherland

Golspie Community Equipment Store
phone 01408 633293

Physiotherapy equipment

Physiotherapy equipment includes items like:

  • crutches
  • rollators
  • zimmer or walking frames

Please return these items to the hospital or department that provided them to you - see all NHS Highland hospitals with contact phone numbers.

Wheelchairs

Argyll and Bute area

phone 03007 900 129 (Westmarc)

Highland area

Contact the wheelchair and seating service.

Last updated: 25 March 2025

Next review date: 23 March 2026