Health services

Tender description

Please note that this Prior Information Notice (PIN) has been issued by Wolverhampton City Council (WCC) and Wolverhampton Clinical Commissioning Group (WCCG) purely as an information gathering exercise. It is not an invitation to tender and does not represent the start of a formal competitive process. The PIN is to notify the market that WCC and WCCG shall be jointly seeking expressions of interest from suitably experienced organisations capable of providing community equipment (CE) to Adults and Children who reside within the City of Wolverhampton and / or are registered with a Wolverhampton GP. The overarching intention is to help people, including children and young people, maintain as much control over their lives as possible and to promote their independence, health and well-being. The overarching intention is to help all people maintain as much control over their lives as possible and to promote their independence, health and wellbeing. Equipment and assistive technology make a fundamental contribution to this agenda and can bring significant benefits to both social care and health partners, by: — Enabling all people to live in the community for longer; — Reducing the need for and the level of domiciliary care packages including respite care for children and young people; — Reducing care home and avoidable hospital admissions; — Facilitating early discharge from acute care; — Reducing the amount of time people, including children and young people spend avoidably in hospital through better and more integrated care in the community; — Supporting patients approaching end of life to die in their preferred place of death; — Increasing a child and young person's independence as well as addressing their social care needs.