This is the second integrated Community Equipment Service (CES) catalogue for Devon and replaces previous editions of printed Joint Equipment Store (JES) catalogues.

The catalogue is provided by the Community Equipment Service and is intended for staff ordering equipment for service users and carers for whom Devon County Council Social Services and the NHS Primary Care Trusts (North Devon, Mid Devon, East Devon, Exeter, Teignbridge and South Hams & West Devon) have commissioning responsibility.

Please note this catalogue is not for retail use, although it may of course be useful information to any member of the public who wishes to buy their own equipment elsewhere, should this be an option. (see Where can I buy equipment for myself?)

The catalogue has been developed by a joint, multidisciplinary team and stakeholder agencies within Devon have been consulted.

The range of CES equipment is being developed to meet user and carer need and choice, across age and disability, as well as improving generic clinical access.

General

• Purpose of this catalogue
• About the Community Equipment Service (CES)
• About the equipment information we've used
• Loans of equipment - terms and conditions
• Ordering
• Range of stock held - feedback
• Guidelines for prescribing equipment
• Equipment guidance notes
• Checklist for patients discharged from hospital with a medical device
• Decontamination of medical devices
• Complaints flow chart
• Faults and medical device alerts
• Quality monitoring feedback form (for printing off)
• Adverse Incident Report form - Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) (for printing off)

Equipment information

• Bath and shower
• Beds and pressure care
• Hoists, slings and scales
• Household
• Mobility
• Raising
• Toilet
• Transfer
• Minor Adaptions
  
  Full Version of the Catalogue can be downloaded here (2.25MB - pdf help)

Residential Homes

Preamble to appear here

• Getting Started (1.38MB - pdf help)
• Equipment For Care Homes (88KB - pdf help)
• Care Homes Standards (132KB - pdf help)

Please note this catalogue is not for retail use. It can only be used by staff authorised by Devon County Council and NHS Primary Care Trusts to prescribe equipment.

Care Homes

The purpose of this document is to clarify the responsibilities to provide equipment between Social Services, the National Health Service (NHS) as provided by the local Primary Care Trust (PCT) and Care Homes, including those that offer Nursing Care.  The local guidance notes on equipment and care homes have been produced to provide clarity for clinicians and homeowners alike and to give the responsibilities for the provision of equipment a greater equity across our organisational boundaries

These local agreements must be read in conjunction with 'Getting Started' Community Equipment and care homes last updated 12 October 2004 This earlier document left some areas of provision to local agreements and this document provides these agreements.  It has been produced by staff across the Devon Health and Social Care community.  

The Department of health 'Care Homes for Older People National Minimum Standards', sets out the minimum core standards which apply to all care homes providing accommodation and nursing or personal care for older people.

The Devon Community Equipment Service is provided by

The Community Equipment Service
14 Marsh Green Road
Marsh Barton Industrial Estate
Exeter
EX2 8LT
Tel: 01392 678533 or 01392 204144
Fax: 01392 678531

Hours of operation

8am - 4pm Monday - Thursday
8am - 3.30 Friday

Contact Us

• Contact Social Services Online
  
  or
  
  
• call your local Social Services office

Also on devon.gov.uk

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