WSCC AE Integrated Community Equipment Service June 22

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.