Purpose

The Community
Equipment Store supply equipment to prevent Hospital Admission and
allow Hospital Discharge, often under incredibly tight deadlines.
We also provide equipment to allow people to live independently
within their own homes, delivering equipment for Health and Social
Care Services.
We require suppliers to deliver equipment reliably and at an
economical price for Wigan Residents. To maintain our service of
32% of deliveries being delivered the day of request, we need our
supplier of ADL equipment to hold and deliver equipment on time.
This allows us to maintain our current level of deliveries.
Currently we deliver 90% of equipment prescriptions within 3
working days.

Decision

The Portfolio Holder for Adult
Social Care authorises:-

 

(1) the
award of the supply of community equipment to the suppliers
identified in the report; and

(2) the
Assistant Director – Legal, Governance and Elections to enter
into any agreements necessary on behalf of the Council to
facilitate (1).