Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council has recently purchased the ELMS2 IT system to manage its Integrated Community Equipment Service (ICES). The Kingswinford based service provides essential equipment on behalf on the Dudley Directorate of Adult, Community and Housing Services and the local health trusts to enable disabled people to remain in their own home. 

ELMS2, the UK's most widely used ICES management system, is supplied and maintained by Leicester based IT solutions provider, Ethitec. In selecting ELMS2, Dudley ICES had undertaken a careful evaluation of the range of IT management systems that are available, and visited several other ICES to see these systems in live use.

ELMS2 product manager for Ethitec, Mike Weatherall, said: "When Ethitec delivers ELMS2, we consider ourselves to be a long-term partner of an ICES, rather than just an IT supplier. We therefore look forward to working closely with the staff at the Dudley service, not just as the system is rolled out over the coming weeks, but for many years going forward".