Services Database Needle Exchange (Salford Area)

Aim
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.

Objectives
• To protect health and reduce the rate of blood-borne infections and drug related deaths among
service users:
o by reducing the rate of sharing and other high-risk injecting behaviours.
o by providing sterile injecting equipment and other support.
o by promoting safer injecting practices; and
o by providing and reinforcing harm reduction messages including safe sex advice and
advice on overdose prevention (e.g., risks of poly-drug use and alcohol use) via relevant
publications and materials.

• To improve the health of local communities by preventing the spread of blood-borne infections
by ensuring the safe disposal of used injecting equipment.
• To offer information and referral to services which support an individual to engage with recovery
from substance misuse.
• To maximise the access and retention of all injectors.
• To increase the number of people accessing the Needle and Syringe programme provision
through open access in a local pharmacy setting.
• To provide baseline information in relation to the demand for the service in this geographic area

Not known.