Services Database Needle Exchange (Bury Area)

Service ID

60914

Description

2. Aims and intended service outcomes
2.1 To assist the service users to remain healthy until they are ready and willing to cease injecting and ultimately achieve a drug-free life
with appropriate support.
2.2 To protect health and reduce the rate of blood-borne infections and drug related deaths among service users by:
• reducing the rate of sharing and other high-risk injecting behaviours;
• providing sterile injecting equipment and other support;
• promoting safer injecting practices;
• promoting safer non-injecting methods of drug taking; and
• providing and reinforcing harm reduction messages advice on overdose prevention (e.g. risks of poly-drug use and alcohol use)
including safe sex advice.
2.3 To improve the health of local communities by preventing the spread of blood-borne infections by ensuring the safe disposal of used
injecting equipment.
2.4 To help service users access treatment by offering referral to specialist community based recovery orientated substance misuse
treatment services and health and social care professionals where appropriate.
2.5 To aim to maximise the access and retention of all injectors, especially the highly socially excluded.
2.6 To help service users access other health and social care and to act as a gateway to other services for example key working, prescribing,
hepatitis B immunisation, hepatitis and HIV screening, primary care services, including flu vaccinations.

Location of service

Greater Manchester LPC

Commissioner

Local Authority (LA)

Method of commissioning

Local Authority contract

Source of funding

Local Authority (LA)

Service type

Needle & syringe programme

Other organisations involved

Dates

Start date:
End date:

Status

Ongoing

Training

All pharmacies will complete the self declaration of competence, as stated in the service specification.

Comments

This service is available in the Bury area only.