Lincolnshire Community Equipment Services (LCES)

The Lincolnshire Community Equipment Service (LCES) provides a community equipment loan service across the whole of Lincolnshire for adults, children and young people in community settings, care settings and education settings on behalf of commissioning partners who have statutory requirement duties under various legislation to provide community equipment for people with an assessed eligible social or health care need.

The primary functions of the service are to:

• Purchase equipment – standard and special equipment;
• Store equipment – standard and special equipment;
• Provide an IT system that delivers the requirements of the service;
• Provide reporting into activity and use of the service by authorises prescribers;
• Provide the logistics in relation to placing orders, delivering, installation, repair, collection, maintenance, storing, cleaning and refurbishing of all equipment;
• Deliver a high-quality person-centred service;
• Deliver the service in line with operational procedures agreed by commissioners;
• Work closely the LCES Team and Partners in service delivery.

The community equipment to be supplied, maintained, collected, recycled and stored through the Service are summarised below:

• Simple Aids to Daily Living (SADLs) – small selection of products to aid independent living including perching stools, trolleys, bathing and toileting aids, and walking aids;
• Complex Aids to Daily Living (CADLs) – includes hoists, slings, powered equipment and specialist bathing equipment; beds / accessories and pressure care equipment;
• Bespoke / Non-Stock Equipment – includes items that do not form part of the standard equipment product range and are instead additional ‘one-off’ items that meet the Patient's / Customer's assessed needs;
• Provision of Ceiling Track Hoists, Stair lifts, Ramps and Rails;
• Provision of Weighing Scales Service;
• Equipment for children through Birth to Five Service;
• Equipment within the Special Educational Needs setting;
• Provision of Occupational Therapy Assessments;
• PPE and LFT Management and Storage;
• Provision of seating clinics, also training and demonstration to Partners and Service Users;
• Servicing and Maintenance of Equipment in a variety of settings such as Day Centres; and
• The Lincolnshire Wheelchair Service.