NRS Healthcare awarded three-year CES contract by Plymouth Council
NRS Healthcare has announced that it is the new provider of Plymouth Council’s Community Equipment Service (CES), having been awarded the contract to run from 2023 to 2026.
The service is jointly funded between Plymouth City Council and NHS Devon ICB (formerly CCG), which signed off the decision making process on 17 August 2022, where the tender outcome involved a change from the incumbent, Millbrook Healthcare, to a new provider.
Nigel Thacker, Development Director at NRS, said: “We are proud to have been chosen by new customers to provide their services.
“The new contracts are designed to meet the challenges and opportunities our customers, both Council and NHS partners are facing now and that will emerge over the next decade.
“Contracts are also increasingly integrating wider services to reduce commissioner costs, make ordering simpler for prescribers, and deliver a more joined up provision for service users.”
NRS Healthcare was delighted to end the year having won several new community equipment contracts through the course of 2022, both with new and existing customers.
Contracts have been won through separate successful rebids with Buckinghamshire Council, Lincolnshire County Council, Brighton & Hove Council and Torbay Council.
Some of the new contracts extend the range of services NRS provides to customers, for example, NRS will also be taking over the provision of the Wheelchair services across Lincolnshire from April 2024.
Technology Enabled Care (TEC) has been included in NRS’ contract with Buckinghamshire Council for some time, a service developed with Buckinghamshire during the previous contract period and extended in scope in the new contract.
A number of contracts add minor adaptations, lift and hoist services, an increasingly common integration with Community Equipment Services.
Nigel added: “We are delighted to be able to continue our relationships with so many of our existing customers, some of whom we have been delivering Community Equipment and other services in partnership with for 15 years or more.”
NRS Healthcare recently partnered with Bladder and Bowel UK over a new initiative to address the issue of ‘incontinence poverty’ by distributing essential incontinence products free of charge to people in need.
