WSCC AE Integrated Community Equipment Service

The provision of Community Equipment is essential in promoting the independence of people of all ages with disabilities. It will often result in a person being able to manage independently without the needs for other services. In some cases it will enable the safe and effective delivery of other services involving support for people with personal care.

The broads aims of the CES is to:

o Promote independence, safety, social inclusion, quality of life, improved end of life care

o Help to give elderly and disabled people control over their own lives

o Reduce unscheduled hospital admissions

o Reduce A & E attendance

o Reduce the length of a hospital stay

o Assist with the quality of many quality outcomes for children and adults

o Enable people to live at home for longer thereby reducing the need for care home admissions

o Improve early years development

o Play a key role in the delivery of early intervention and prevention strategies and crisis admissions to high cost services.

The West Sussex Integrated Community Equipment Service (ICES) is commissioned through a Partnership between West Sussex County Council (acting as Lead Commissioner) and West Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group.

There will be a virtual bidder briefing event held at 1pm - 2pm on Thursday 19th May 2022. Should you wish to attend, please send a message on the e-Sourcing Portal by 5pm on Tuesday 17th May 2022 and advise who from your organisation will be attending, along with their direct email address. Please note if we receive your request to join the briefing after this time, we cannot guarantee you will be able to attend. Please ensure you include your email address in the message. If an email address is not provided, we cannot send you a direct email containing the meeting link for the event.