Integrating Community Equipment Services

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Integrating Community Equipment Services

• Background

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Significance of Community Equipment to Community
Care

• Community Equipment provides good outcomes at a
  reduced cost. If a medicine was discovered with a
  similar cost profile, it would be hailed as the
  wonder drug of the age (Audit Commission Report,
  Fully Equipped 2000).
• (Thanks to Neil Abraham)

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Timely and effective provision of community
equipment provides benefits to

• Service users
• Carers
• Staff
• Health and social care providers

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Benefits to Service Users

• Independence
• Choice
• Control
• safety

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Benefits to carers

• Reduces risks
• Reduces the amount of care needed
• Makes caring possible

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Benefits to Health and Social Care

• Reduces risk to staff
• Facilitates hospital discharge
• Reduces demand on residential and nursing
  placements
• Reduces demand for home care
• Savings on other budgets

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The costs of not providing equipment

• To individuals Carers
• To staff
• To organisations
• What would community care look like without
  community equipment?

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Background

• Audit Commission Reports
• WAG Letter
• ICES Initiative England
• Workshops in Wales Ian Salt
• Capital Grant
• Workshops Health Act Flexibilities
• Workshops Trusted Assessor
• Conference

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Background

• Project Management Money
• Regular meetings of co-ordinators
• Secondment of Brian Donnelly
• http//www.ssiacymru.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid30
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• Pooled funds seminars plus advice notes
• Guidelines PIs
• Access to Funds via other grants.
• Section 33 agreements signed some exceptions

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Future

• Milestone Plans January, April, July and
  January, April 2010 deadline for capital
  expenditure.
• Commissioning Framework Value Wales Routine
  High Volume Equipment
• Complex Equipment funding for feasibility
  exercise all Wales approach questionnaires to
  local partnerships, stock-take beyond stores,
  research around specific equipment
  communication equipment.
• Social Enterprises
• Cross Border Protocol Minister
• Residential Care Protocol
• Protocol for assessment E.g. home circumstances

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Future

• Assumption CES already delivered safely high
  risk service under pressure?
• CES part of Regulatory Regime? Minimum
  Standards effective self evaluation.
• Minimum Standards to be developed by June 2010 or
  sooner.