Community Equipment Services

I am investigating demand for Community Equipment Services (CES), Clinical Wheelchair Services (WCS), Home Improvement Agency (HIA), and Technology Enabled Care (TEC) across the UK. I would like to request the following information relating to the usage of each of these types of service in your Local Authority.

1) For each service (CES, WCS, HIA, TEC), i would like to understand:

a). How is funding and contracting for each service structured in your Local Authority - which body leads on contracting and what proportion of funding is supplied by the local Integrated Care Board vs from your own budgets?

b.) What is the total budget allocated for each service for the current financial year, and what is the planned budget for the next financial year - if this is not known, can you provide a percentage estimate of whether it will be higher, lower, or unchanged compared with the current budget?

c). What was the total expenditure (£) on each services in your Local Authority for each of the last three financial years?

d). What proportion of expenditure was on outsourced (i.e. independent sector) service providers for each of the last three financial years?

e). Which independent providers did you use for each services in the last financial year, and what value of total spending was with each provider? Below are some examples

e1). CES providers: NRS Healthcare, Millbrook Healthcare, Ross Care, Medequip.

e2). WCS providers: NRS Healthcare, Millbrook Healthcare, Ross Care, AJM Healthcare, Blatchford, Opcare

e3). HIA providers: Medequip, Millbrook Healthcare

e4). TEC providers: Tunstall, Millbrook Healthcare/Livity Life, Access

f). Is your local service for each of them shared with other local authorities? If so, please provide a list of these authorities.

g). When was each type of service last tendered, and to when is the current contract expected to run until?

1a-g) See table below