Please provide the following information you have pertaining to Community Equipment Services within your LA.

1. Which provider do you use for your current Community Equipment Service?
NRS Healthcare.

2. Is the Community Equipment contract in partnership with any other local authority or CCG? If so please provide a list of other organisations that share this contract
NHS East Berkshire CCG
NHS Berkshire West CCG
Bracknell Forest Borough Council
Reading Borough Council
Slough Borough Council
Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead Council
West Berkshire Council
Wokingham Borough Council

3. When did your current Community Equipment Service contract(s) start, and what is the contract end date? Please include any information on contract extensions.
1st April 2017 – 31st March 2022. Extension issued from 1st April 2022 – 31st March 2024.

4. What is the annual spend of the Community Equipment contract for the last five years (year end 31 March)? If not available, please provide data for any available years. Please specify if these values relate only to your LA or for other bodies (e.g. CCGs)
a) 2016/17: £7.6m
b) 2017/18: £7.3m
c) 2018/19: £8.8m
d) 2019/20: £9.8m
e) 2020/21: £10.4m

5. What proportion of the 2019/20 budget was funded by the LA(s), CCG(s) and other(s)?
59% by CCGs – 41% by local authorities.

6.
a) Is provision of Telecare Services included within the current Community Equipment Service contract?
Yes included in the contract.
b) If no, which provider do you use for Telecare Services?
Not applicable.

7. What is the annual spend of the Telecare Services contract for the last three years (year end 31 March)? If not available, please provide data for any available years. Please specify if these values relate only to your LA or for other bodies (e.g. CCGs). Please clarify if this is this in addition the spend outlined in question 4.

This is not a separate contract however figures for spend within BCES contract for all partners was:
a) 2018/19: £215,469
b) 2019/20: £222,514
c) 2020/21: £343,269