Ethitec are delighted to announce that the Bury Council Integrated Community Equipment Service (ICES) has this week gone live on the company’s ELMS2 system.

Bury Council ICES provides a key service to the people of Bury, Prestwich, Radcliffe, Ramsbottom, Tottington and Whitefield to support independent living, timely hospital discharge, and hospital admission avoidance. Encompassing administration, procurement, delivery, collection, decontamination, maintenance, repair and storage facilities from their new premises on the Bridge Trading Estate in Bury, equipment or adaptations are issued to help with the following:

• Mobility
• Moving and handling
• Bathing
• Showering
• Using the toilet
• Access (e.g. ramps, stair lifts, lifts)
• Pressure relieving
• Sleeping/ getting into bed

Ethitec’s ELMS2 system is a powerful and comprehensive software solution supporting the efficient management of Community Equipment Services, Wheelchair Services, and other areas of NHS and Social Care supplies provision. The system provides integrated functionality to manage the end-to-end workflows of such services across the UK.

Prior to the service going live on ELMS2, Ethitec also provided a range of professional services to the Council, including data migration, training, consultancy, and handholding work, together with ongoing support and system hosting.

Ethitec look forward to working closely with the Council, and welcoming them in to the company’s active ELMS2 User Group community.

After a busy few weeks of activity on both sides of the border, Ethitec are pleased to announce that the Aberdeenshire Joint Equipment Service (JES) has just gone live on the company’s ELMS2 system.

Centred in Inverurie, with a number of fixed and mobile satellite stores located throughout Aberdeenshire, the JES is a community equipment service funded by Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care partnership providing home equipment needs for Aberdeenshire residents. Aberdeenshire currently has a population of circa 250,000 with approximately 100,000 domestic properties.

ELMS2 is a leading software solution that is widely used across the UK, supporting the efficient management of Community Equipment Services, Wheelchair Services, and other areas of NHS and Social Care supplies provision. The system provides comprehensive functionality to manage the equipment stocking, ordering, distribution, maintenance, and recycling processes at the JES. To aid the rollout of the new system, Ethitec also provided a range of professional services, including data migration, training, consultancy, and handholding work, together with ongoing support and hosting.

Ethitec were initially tasked with getting the core system up and running in a short timeframe of just a few weeks in order to ensure continuity with the imminent expiry of the Council’s existing system contract looming. As the dust settles on the ELMS2 go-live, the JES and Ethitec will now be tackling a roadmap of further process improvements, functionality launches and system integration tasks over the coming weeks.

Ethitec are excited to report more success for ELMS2 in the North East of England with the news that the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has commissioned their ELMS2 system to manage the activities of their Community Equipment Service.

Newcastle City Loan Equipment Service (NCLES) provides equipment to support adults and children with their daily living and nursing needs in their own homes. Based at the Geoffrey Rhodes Centre in Byker, the Service installs, maintains, repairs, decontaminates and recycles a wide range of equipment to increase the safety and independence of Newcastle residents in their home environments.

The ELMS2 system commissioned by the Trust will provide NCLES with a comprehensive set of easy to use software functions specifically designed to manage the administrative, warehousing, servicing, and distribution activities of the Service. Ethitec will also be providing a set of technical, training, and consultancy services to help ensure a successful transition over to ELMS2, together with secure, high-performance cloud hosting.

Mike Weatherall, Operations Manager at Ethitec, said: “The North East continues to be a particularly successful area for us, and we’re obviously delighted that NCLES have joined the other ELMS2 customers that we have in the region. We’re looking forward to welcoming the team at the Geoffrey Rhodes Centre in to our ELMS2 user community, and to helping them establish some rapid benefits from their investment in our proven solution.”

Ethitec are proud to announce that they are now working with AJM Healthcare (AJM), who have commissioned the ELMS2 system to help manage their portfolio of integrated Wheelchair Service contracts. AJM is a leading integrated wheelchair service provider for the NHS, providing high quality, outcome-led services to a population of over 2 million, and was the first company in the UK to be awarded CECOPS accreditation for integrated wheelchair services, widely acknowledged as the gold standard for quality in the sector. AJM currently employs over 275 people, ranging from specialised therapists to field service engineers.

ELMS2 is a comprehensive, proven software solution that supports the efficient management of Wheelchair Services, Community Equipment Services, and other areas of NHS and Social Care supplies provision. It offers comprehensive integrated, modular facilities to manage patients, referrals, waiting lists, appointments, assessments, stock, journeys, purchasing, servicing, and repairs. ELMS2 is also a CECOPS Approved Software Solution.

The first four of AJM’s integrated contracts (Milton Keynes, Cambridge & Peterborough, Lincoln and Derbyshire ) have now successfully gone live on ELMS2. Ethitec will be working closely with the AJM project team over the next few months to ensure a successful transition to the system across the remainder of their integrated Wheelchair Service contract portfolio.

Guy Eatherington, Business Development and Customer Relations Director at AJM commented  “We are delighted with the support that Ethitec have provided during the implementation from the structure and project support and custom system design changes completed to tailor ELMS2 to our specific requirements – thank you to Mike and your team”