Community equipment commissioning and procurement teams

We are submitting this FOI request as part of our market research and to help us build stronger relationships with community equipment commissioning and procurement teams.

1: Please describe your Community Equipment Service delivery model (for example, in-house, outsourced, hybrid etc).

2: Does your community equipment service offer supported employment opportunities? If so, what are the details of this offer and what proportion of your team are supported employees?

3: Please share the site / floor plan for your community equipment warehouse solutions.

4: How do you manage people moving in and out of county with community equipment?

5: What is your process for ordering non-standard / special stock?

6: How do you operate your weekend / out of hours equipment service?

7: Please list a commissioning or procurement contact for your community equipment service.

1. Outsourced to Millbrook Healthcare *Information found at https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Search

2-3. *This information can be found via this link https://www.find tender.service.gov.uk/Search

4. Cross border agreement with other local authorities where the equipment transferred is agreed on based on clinical need and what the receiving service can support.

5. Panel comprising of senior clinicians from across the partnership to review equipment requests:

County-wide NCS process in placed for both Children’s and Adult services – health and social care.

Prescriber assesses, discussed at NCS panel (Adults) or SEP (Children’s), if panel approves order is placed on Millflow (Millbrook Healthcare IT system), Millbrook purchase from supplier.

6. *This is public information. https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Search

*As such, this information is exempt from disclosure in accordance with the exemption set out at Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which provides that a public authority need not comply with a request for disclosure under the Act where that information is reasonably accessible by other means