Adam gets his mobility, but the struggle for support goes on

Bureaucracy surrounding the allocation of paediatric resources has added to family stress, writes Health Correspondent Catherine Shanahan.

Adam King is out and about in the summer sunshine, as is the right of every child, because he’s finally got the set of wheels he needed.

That vital set of wheels — which took the best part of a year to access — have put an end to Adam’s days of “scrambling about on all-fours in the dirt, like an animal on the ground” — which is how he got about, for the most part, before his chair arrived.