Might be worth noting that because this sort of thing isn't an NHS function, provision varies between the different nations of the UK. Social care is in theory better funded in Scotland - in practice, when resources are limited, there are always going to be hoops to jump through.

I tend to be rather unsympathetic to such trivial requests, though. Something like this can only cost in double figures and should be doable by anybody who can handle a power drill and a screwdriver. It's not like needing a home oxygen set or a stairlift, and Lizzie is hardly impoverished.

I was brought up to know how to bodge things - so when I needed to learn simple denture repairs and to make my girlfriend a custom-moulded fibreglass wrist support, I just did it rather than demand that some professional step in. The denture job wasn't as good as what a dental tech would have done; the wrist support was probably better than a hospital would have produced since I was willing to take longer getting it right. On another forum I was treated to an interminable saga by a woman who couldn't get some gizmo sized just right for her disabled husband. She dragged the fight out for months on end insisting that the hospital provide it and leaving her hubby to get steadily worse from immobility, when 20 quid's worth of Dexion, tubing and bolts could have done the job in an afternoon, needing no more skill than a kid playing with Meccano. Self-righteous, sadistic dimwit.

An inspired book about bodging: Victor Papanek, "Design for the Real World". It ought to be on school curricula.