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Background:

The report sought the Cabinet’s permission to award the procurement of the MICES Contract.

An Exempt Appendix to the report containedfinancial analysis in respect of this procurement project.

Reasons:

The procurement of the MICES contract will deliver a service that will enable the following:

i)    Supply, deliver, fit, install, adjust, repair, refurbish, reuse, collect, decontaminate, recycle and dispose of items of equipment requested by authorised prescribers.

ii)    Procuring equipment (both standard and complex) including specialist paediatric and adult equipment as requested by authorised prescribers.  The equipment will meet all current standards and guidance as set by the Medical and Healthcare Product Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and identified within the NHS Controls Assurance Standards.

iii)   They will also provide onsite training and technical advice, working with practitioners/ clinicians, attending joint visits and advising clinicians on all aspects of minor adaptations and any specific technicalities around all supplied equipment.

iv)   Delivering the correct items of equipment identified for daily living to service users on a short or long-term loan basis to service users’ homes within specified timescales as instructed by the prescriber or an authorised officer.

v)   Support the patients long term plan by helping more people to live independently at home for longer by:

•   bringing together different professionals to coordinate better care for the individual service user.

•   developing more rapid community response teams to prevent unnecessary hospitalisation.

•   speed up home discharges.

•   improve carer’s equipment support.

•   give people more say about the care they receive and where they receive it, particularly towards the end of their lives.

•   to support the delivery of the NHS personalisation agenda and the social care services use of personal budgets.

•   to deliver a service that meets the requirements of the Children and families Act 2014, which includes equipment provision in health and social care services for eligible children, young adults and the general population of Medway.

•   to improve and maintain health and wellbeing through increased independence, choice, control, dignity and quality of life.

•   to support the delivery of end-of-life care in a care environment chosen by the patient.

•   to collect equipment from the service user’s home or community setting when no longer required.

•   reduce carbon footprint and environmental impact through recycling and using local resources.

•   to coordinate service planning through a multi-agency or multi-disciplinary plan that offers a timely, flexible, prompt and responsive service.