Preliminary Market Engagement - Assistive Technology Hub

Description

Please note this is a Market Engagement Event, not a Tender Opportunity. City of Doncaster Council are looking to develop an Assistive Technology Hub in the Community. We are running an engagement event at CAST in Doncaster City Centre on Tuesday 10th June 2025; this event will be attended by Strategic and Operational Leads across Adult Social Care:- - The event will take place in the Dance Space, on Floor 1 at CAST. - The address is as follows:- Waterdale, Doncaster DN1 3BU- please note, this is next door to the Doncaster Civic Centre. - There is a café within the venue. Our vision is: - - To enable people in the Doncaster community to live their best lives as independently as possible. - To support the best outcomes for local people to live happy and healthy lives and aim to support to reduce people needing to be admitted to hospital, which can increase their needs and prevent being able to return to independence. - We will draw on experts by experience with lived experience of drawing on our services to shape the types of Assistive Technology which would have the best impact on local people. - This proposal is part of our Local Account priority which is to improve our Assistive Technology offer. proposal. Please see link to our Local Account: Your Care and Support Doncaster 2025. Our priorities have been coproduced with people with lived experience of drawing on care and support. - We would like to hear from providers that can provide wide ranging and cutting-edge assistive technology that can support people across the community with a variety of needs. - We are currently developing an Assistive Technology Local Account (Vision statement with priorities), and this will feed into the future specification with our long-term ambitions. - The ask in the new offer not just for standard telecare packages such as lifeline units, pendants, bed sensors etc. - We want to see things that will make a real difference to enhance people’s lives. We want to support a less prescriptive approach and moving beyond the standard telecare approach broaden our offer as a service.