Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products

Tender description

Herefordshire Council and NHS Herefordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) have statutory requirement duties under various legislation to provide community Equipment for people with an assessed eligible social or health care need. Under a Section 75 agreement this service is integrated, with Herefordshire Council acting as the lead commissioner. The existing integrated community equipment service is central to the delivery of the prevention and wellbeing priorities of the council and its partners with changing demand in social and health care, this service needs to continue to evolve to better meet the demands of stakeholders. The service supports around 7 000 people per year with approximately 20 000 items of equipment. It delivers,installs, collects, recycles and maintains a wide range of basic and complex equipment. The council welcome bids from organisations that can deliver an end to end service in line with the specification. Herefordshire Council seeks to appoint a suitably accredited and demonstrably experienced organisation to provide an integrated community equipment service for Herefordshire. Herefordshire Council and NHS Herefordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) have statutory requirement duties under various legislation to provide community equipment for people with an assessed eligible social or health care need. Under a Section 75 agreement this service is integrated, with Herefordshire Council acting as the Lead Commissioner. The existing Integrated community equipment service is central to the delivery of the prevention and wellbeing priorities of the council and its partners with changing demand in social and health care, this service needs to continue to evolve to better meet the demands of stakeholders. The 2 primary functions of the service are in relation to: (a) the purchasing of equipment both standard catalogue stock and special equipment and self-purchase functions; (b) the logistics in relation to placing orders, delivering, installation, maintenance, collection, storing and cleaning of equipment. The service supports around 7 000 people per year with approximately 20 000 items of equipment. It delivers,installs, collects, recycles and maintains a wide range of basic and complex equipment. The following organisations will be able to call-off against this tender Herefordshire Council, NHS Herefordshire Clinical Commissioning Group. The council welcome bids from organisations that can deliver an end to end service in line with the specification.