Examples of Community Equipment in a sentence
It is recommended that Cabinet ratify the contract award recommendations for the Berkshire Community Equipment Service.
The Integrated Community Equipment pooled budget brings together health and social care equipment for disabled people as a single service, with some efficiency of scale and improved delivery.
Based upon a needs assessment, fair access criteria and the financial position of the individual resident, local authorities are required to offer a range of services, one of which is the provision of Community Equipment Services so as to enable residents to remain living at home.
In 2000, the Department of Health (DH) published a recommendation to local authorities and health trusts that consideration should be given to the integration of their community equipment services into a single operation/service (Integrated Community Equipment Service – ICES).
A number of London boroughs have over the last nine months been working together to explore ways in which the Community Equipment Service can be more responsive to the needs of Service Users and how operational efficiencies can be achieved.
The DH integration agenda has a specific workstream related to the Community Equipment Service.
Slough Borough Council has been the lead commissioner of the pan Berkshire Integrated Community Equipment Service since its creation over 5 years ago.
Heavily soiled equipment should be reported to Community Equipment Providers for replacement.
A thorough risk assessment must be carried out if a bed grab handle is to be used on the bed, and the equipment can only be obtained through the Community Equipment Store/Equipment Provider and authorized by a supervisor.
Is your Wheelchair service procured as a separate service, or is it combined with other services such as Community Equipment, Prosthetics etc.