Publications
Children’s Equipment Provision
Audit Commission – Services for Disabled Children 2003
University of York Children with Disability Final Report-Nov09
Debt and Disability – Contact a Family
Community Equipment: Use and Needs of Disabled Children and their Families: University of York
How do they manage? Family Fund
BDF Newlife: It’s Not Too Much To Ask, 2007
DH consultant’s report on children’s equipment services 2010
Health & Safety
Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974
HSE Simple guide to the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998
HSE – Five steps to Risk Assessment
2009 Patient Safety – Health Select Committee
Useful National Patient Safety Agency Risk Matrix
HSE – Managing Health & Safety, Five Steps to Success
Managing Medical Devices
Managing Medical Devices DB2006(05)
MHRA guidance on CES, Decontamination 2003
New EU Medical Device Directive 2010
Making regulatory decisions MHRA
MHRA Enforcement Strategy 2010[1]
Service Reviews
Better Outcome Lower Cost – Office for Disability Issues
Audit Commission – Fully equipped review 2000
Audit Commission – Fully equipped 2002 Assisting independence
Independent living strategy report
Report on CES (07-08) by the Information Centre for health and social care
Why is it that disabled people are always left until last (Wales)
Standards
July 2006 FAST Standards Report
The Need for National Minimum Standards by Brian Donnelly
MHRA Standards for assisting manufacturers (2006)
Strategy
Independent living strategy report – A cross-government strategy about independent living for disabled people 2006
Improving the life chances of disabled people – The prime minister’s strategy unit 2005
Transforming Community Equipment Services (TCES)
The TCES Retail Model – Why are Standards Needed?
Centre for Economics and Business Research (cebr) TCES Report
Wheelchair Services
Get Moving – the case for effective Wheelchair Services: Muscular Dystrophy Campaign 2010
Moving Forward: Review of NHS wheelchair and seating services in Scotland. NHS Scotland 2006
Social-return-on-investment-for-whizz-kidz-services
School when you are on wheels: Young Wheelchair Users in Wales: Contact a Family
Code of Practice for Disability Equipment, Wheelchair and Seating Services
Code of Practice for Disability Equipment, Wheelchair and Seating Services.
This CECOPS official guide is essential reading for all commissioners, providers and clinical staff involved with these services.
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First ever International Code of Practice for Planning, Commissioning and Providing Technology Enabled Care Services!
If you are involved in planning, commissioning or providing Technology Enabled Care Services (TECS) e.g. telecare, telehealth, digital health, then this Code is for you.
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“HSE recognises the need for guidance, and welcomes the code of practice…The code will help organisations who commission or provide community equipment make health and safety improvements in their businesses.”
Health and Safety Executive
Latest News
‘Independent task group driving digital health readiness’
A new independent group has been formed to drive forward the much needed digital health readiness agenda. This will be led by CECOPS CIC*, and supported by many experts in the digital health space. The formation of this group follows a webinar run by CECOPS ‘DIGITAL HEALTH READINESS, DURING & POST COVID-19 PANDEMIC’**. There was…
CECOPS Webinar (9th April 2020, 2pm-3.30pm): Hospital Discharge Arrangements
In the current COVID-19 pandemic it is important to free up as many hospital beds as possible by safely discharging people back into their home or another suitable place within the community. Hospital discharges are complex, and require good co-ordination between hospital and community staff to arrange clinical assessments, equipment deliveries, care packages etc. The…
AJM Healthcare gains CECOPS Corporate Accreditation for its Community Equipment and Integrated Wheelchair Services, nationwide!
AJM Healthcare has gained the highly regarded CECOPS Corporate Accreditation for its Community Equipment, Integrated Wheelchair Services and Approved Repairer Services. AJM is a growing organisation providing 20+ services nationwide. AJM delivers a range of mobility equipment solutions to the NHS, Local Authority partners and individuals across the UK, providing good quality, outcome-led services in…
