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Market Vision

Our key strategy with Equipment is:

A responsive, flexible, and agile service which supports people to live safely and independently in their new homes, enables carers both informal and formal to undertake their role, facilitates hospital avoidance, supports the Home First approach and D2A approach, and plays a key role in early intervention and prevention.

Key aims:

  • Right equipment, right place, right time, and right first time
  • Supporting people to remain independent for as long as possible
  • Sustainable pricing
  • Consistent and sufficient supply in all areas of the county
  • Collaborations with partners countywide

1 Year Delivery Plan by end of 2024

By end of year 1 new contract in place. - A new contract has been put in place for this service

Key Milestones:​

  • New contract with Medequip in place​
  • Service established with appropriate monitoring and learning mechanisms in place​
  • Partners approval to ordering processes, checks and balances​
  • Handover of stock and staff transfer from previous provider planned and managed​
  • Expansion of partnership to include West Essex NHS​

 

3 Year Delivery Plan by end of 2027​

Description:​

New contract established​

Key Milestones:​

  • Successful delivery of new contract evidenced by performance KPIs​
  • Strong relationships with other social care suppliers and system partners​
  • Collaborative contract management approaches in place between ECC, NHS partners, Medequip and people receiving support from the provider.​
  • Strengthen links to Care Tech contract​
  • Regular horizon scanning to ensure catalogue keeps pack with improvements to equipment design and supply​

 

7 Year Delivery Plan by 2030​

Description:​

Further contractual round​

Key Milestones:​

  • Project plan in place for the next contractual round due 2028​
  • New contract in place and delivering​
  • Secure and robust partnership agreement​

Workforce recruitment and retention

  • To ensure workforce during transfer to new provider

Capacity and demand management

  • Having a better management intelligence in place to support demand and capacity

Delivering good quality services

  • To ensure there are monitoring mechanisms in place

Integration with Health

  • Secured via S75 with NHS partners

Climate and Environment

  • Zero to landfill policy and driven through social value in procurement
Last updated: 17/08/2023
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