Transforming Community Equipment Services: training and support for councils embarking on new retail model

The TCES programme team are running a series of workshops for local authorities and health teams preparing to implement the new prescription system for simple pieces of community equipment.

Simple aids to daily living such as those included in our Mangar Living catalogue help millions of people to live more independently in their own homes.

Over the last two years, the TCES retail model has been developed and trialled around the country, bringing together local health and social care teams with equipment retailers, collaborating to benefit people who need simple aids to daily living. The programme forms an important element of health and social care policy described in "Putting People First", helping to give independence, choice and control to all service users.

After early testing in authorities in the North West and South West, a growing number of health and social care teams are looking to adopt the new prescription system. A further ten new sites in London and the North West are lining up to start their local projects in September.

In a first phase of workshops through to November, project managers will be taken through a step-by-step guide to how the prescription system works and the support on offer to local teams as they progress from project start-up to implementation.

Also between June and December, TCES will be running a further programme of short seminars for directors and senior managers in social care and health, setting out the content for the new retail model and its role in helping local teams to delivery the wider personalisation agenda.

For more information visit the Transforming Community Equipment Services website.

27.05.09

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