How to Order Equipment

How to Order Equipment

For people with a confirmed diagnosis of Motor Neurone Disease and registered with IMNDA, equipment can be ordered from the IMNDA. Healthcare Professionals, please check HSE stock prior to seeking equipment.

If the desired equipment is not available from the HSE, please follow the below to request equipment from the IMNDA. All equipment must be reusable.

IMNDA stock is stored with HC21. We use AssetTrak to monitor our equipment. If you wish to be registered with AssetTrak to view our stock please email us for login details: services@imnda.ie

Health Care Professional:

• Send your request, with client's name and date of birth
• Please request equipment from HSE prior to IMNDA services. If HSE not in a position to fund the equipment, please send evidence of request and refusal to IMNDA.
• View all our stock via AssetTrak.
• If you don’t Have access to AssetTrak we can provide this for you
• Once equipment is identified and as available, the IMND will arrange delivery from HC21.
• If in stock, equipment can take up to 4-6 weeks from order.
• If the item you require is not in stock, we require that the submission for funding goes to the HSE first.

• All equipment must be reusable for IMNDA to purchase it.
• We require 3 quotes to be supplied by you, in advance of purchasing the item/s. Please choose a company based in Ireland. There are many issues with Vat/Tax/Duty Fees with equipment purchased from the UK . Please also request a time frame for delivery from the supplier.
• Please allow at least 3 months for some items i.e., Powered Wheelchairs, Wheelchair parts.
• Please advise the person requiring the equipment that it is on loan from the IMNDA.
• It is the responsibility of the HCP who ordered the equipment to communicate about delivery times etc. to the person who needs the equipment.
• Once the equipment is no longer needed, please contact IMNDA for collection (Not Fannin’s).
• There is a minimum 5-day collection/delivery time for all equipment.

Additional information for OT's

Speech & Communication

Many people with MND experience weakness in the bulbar region, affecting muscles of the mouth, throat and tongue. This can lead to problems with speech and voice, which will affect ability to communicate. These are some ways that can help with speech as a result of Dysarthria

Message banking involves thinking of personally meaningful phrases and making voice recordings of those phrases, usually on a dictaphone-style recorder. The type of phrases that people tend to record are terms of endearment, sarcastic comments, phrases used mostly with close family or friends or catchphrases that others would associate with them. When played on an electronic communication device, they would sound exactly the same as the person’s voice when the recording was made.

Voice banking involves using a commercial service to create a personal computerised voice that is representative of the person’s own voice. It usually involves recording a large inventory of speech by reading aloud set lines of text that capture different speech sounds in different parts of words. Speech clarity therefore needs to be very strong for a successful outcome. The quality and likeness can vary between people. This type of computerised voice will sound more robotic with less intonation than natural speech because it is electronic.

Voice cloning involves creating realistic speech with an AI audio platform. It is different from traditional voice banking as it is less robotic and more realistic. It involves using recordings of your voice or creating new ones (recordings of conversations or reading a book for example), the clone picks up intonation and style in the recording.