Jelllytot - I think SerendipityJane was being sarcastic there.. not actually stating they think wheelchair users are a nuisance!
Hospitals are one of the least accessible places going - waiting rooms are set out for chairs, people who walk. Wheelchair users will often have to wait in the corridor and I have been forgotten on a number of occasions, my name being called ou in teh room or on a screen I can't see and no one has remembered im in the corridor waiting!
There is little room around beds for wheelchairs meaning your chair (if you've managed to bring it in with you, and you can't if you're ambulanced in you will need someone to fetch it for you!) will be put out of your reach.
Disabled accessible toilets are often broken, repurposed, not up to standard etc.
Parking is a fucking nightmare, lifts too small or slow and rammed with people ( a friend often attends a v large hospital over multiple floors in a northern city, she can miss appointments waiting on lifts as they're so busy and so slow) who seem to think the wheelchair user should defer to foot traffic always.
It's very difficult to report accessibility issues to anyone (who to? where?) and even if you do, bugger all gets done and businesses/architects/planners KNOW this. As long as a vague nod towards accessibility is done, the rest can be fudged - so yay they put in an accessible toilet iwth a wheelchair logo on the door.
The fact it is rammed full of huge bins and baby change tables, isn't big enough to get a power chair in and turn it around to exit (try reversing out, omg!) is all by the by 'they've done their best'.
My worst accessiblity story was a burger place in Birmingham. Its split over two levels as its on a hill, so two entrances, stairs between them.
There is seating on both levels - i went in the top, told no, go down the hill to the bottom we're not serving on this floor right now.
Go down the bottom and the ramp/stairs combo is not guard railed, i have to turn with a steep drop in front of me and to my side (behind me when ive turned) to go through double doors... Only the staff don't have the key for the second half of the door! So I can't get in. So can they open up the upper floor? No. Sorry.
Then they asked if I could leave the wheelchair outside?!
What, leave 2.5K of custom chair just... sat on a busy street? Even if I could have walked to a table, no fucking way!
Then we had to make it all the way back up the steep hill to get back to the train (which is why we went in the top door in the first place, far too steep a hill for a manual chair user!) Fortunately a big chap offered to help give me a shove or id still be there now I think!
Zero fucks given by them whatsoever. I did complain in writing, I was promised a voucher. It never arrived.