Lincolnshire Community Equipment Services (LCES)

The Lincolnshire Community Equipment Service (LCES) provides a community equipment loan service across the whole of Lincolnshire for adults, children and young people in community settings, care settings and education settings on behalf of commissioning partners who have statutory requirement duties under various legislation to provide community equipment for people with an assessed eligible social or health care need. The primary functions of the service are to: - Purchase equipment – standard and special equipment; - Store equipment – standard and special equipment; - Provide an IT system that delivers the requirements of the service; - Provide reporting into activity and use of the service by authorises prescribers; - Provide the logistics in relation to placing orders, delivering, installation, repair, collection, maintenance, storing, cleaning and refurbishing of all equipment; - Deliver a high-quality person-centred service; - Deliver the service in line with operational procedures agreed by commissioners; - Work closely the LCES Team and Partners in service delivery. The recommissioning of these services will include the integration of the Lincolnshire Community Wheelchair Services (LCWS).