Service Aims and Objectives. The aims and objectives of needle exchange facilities and harm reduction services are: To offer user-friendly, non-judgmental, client-centered and confidential services. 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. To reduce the rate of sharing and other high risk injecting behaviors by providing sterile injecting equipment and other support. To encourage users of the Needle Exchange service who are not in treatment to attend INSPIRE for treatment. To reduce the rate of blood-borne infections among drug users. To reduce drug-related deaths (immediate death through overdose and long-term such as blood- borne infections). To promote safer injecting practices. To provide focused harm reduction advice and initiatives, including advice on overdose prevention (e.g. risks of poly-drug use and alcohol use). To provide and reinforce harm reduction messages. To help service users access drug treatment to refer to other specialist drug (and alcohol) treatment services. To help service users access other health and social care and to act as a gateway to other services (e.g. key working, prescribing, hepatitis B immunization, hepatitis and HIV screening, primary care services etc). To facilitate access to primary care where relevant. To ensure the safe disposal of used injecting equipment. To aim to maximize the access and retention of all injectors, especially the highly socially excluded, through the low-threshold nature of service delivery and interventions provided. To prevent initiation into injecting and to encourage alternatives to injecting. To improve the health of local communities by preventing the spread of blood-borne viruses and by reducing the rate of discarded used injecting equipment. Overall provision of needle exchange / harm reduction services (type and location) will be determined based on a local needs analysis undertaken by the specialist commissioners. All community pharmacies Sutton will be given the opportunity to consider offering to provide this service. The INSPIRE Partnership intends to commission a minimum of 4 pharmacies spread across Sutton to participate in each aspect of this scheme. Due to the changing nature of drug misuse trends there may be a need to review these locations as the needs assessments are updated. Level of Provision The pharmacy will agree to provide the service on pharmacy premises for the full duration of opening times. Pharmacies are expected to provide a minimum of 15 transactions per month to continue to participate in the Needle Exchange Scheme. INSPIRE will review activity via NEO and will consult with pharmacies who may be falling below the minimum requirements. Joint working Promoting patient understanding of the NHS and Recovery Services Governance Arrangements Standard A – Joint Working Work within local protocols and arrangements outlined in the Service Specification for Needle Exchange (Appendix 1). Be the point of contact for any queries concerning scheme. Ensure initial and on-going training is available as required. Share with commissioners’ responsibility for the co-ordination, maintenance and review of the scheme. Ensure that pharmacies are adequately stocked with needle exchange equipment, and appropriately supported to carry out the service. Ensure NEO is updated for every transactions and the mandatory information is completed. Ensure arrangements are in place to process payments. Ensure compliance with the scheme by providers commissioned by the INSPIRE Partnership (i.e. pharmacies).
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Sources: Service Level Agreement
Service Aims and Objectives. The aims and objectives of needle exchange facilities and harm reduction services are: To offer user-friendly, non-judgmental, clientservice user-centered centred and confidential services. To assist the service users to remain healthy until they are ready and willing To to cease injecting and ultimately achieve a drug-free life with appropriate support. To reduce the rate of sharing and other high risk injecting behaviors by providing sterile injecting equipment and other support. To encourage users of the Needle Exchange service who are not in treatment to attend INSPIRE Pavilions for treatment. To reduce the rate of blood-borne infections among drug users. To reduce drug-related deaths (immediate death through overdose and long-term such as blood- borne infections). To direct people to Pavilions to access Naloxone To promote safer injecting practices. To provide focused harm reduction advice and initiatives, including advice on overdose prevention (e.g. risks of poly-drug use and alcohol use, where to get Naloxone). To provide and reinforce harm reduction messages. To help service users access accessing drug treatment to refer to other specialist drug (and alcohol) treatment services. To help service users access other health and social care and to act as a gateway to other services (e.g. key working, prescribing, hepatitis B immunizationimmunisation, hepatitis and HIV screening, primary care services etc). To facilitate access to primary care where relevant. To ensure the safe disposal of used injecting equipment. To aim to maximize maximise the access and retention of all injectors, especially the highly socially excluded, through the low-threshold nature of service delivery and interventions provided. To prevent initiation into injecting and to encourage alternatives to injecting. To improve the health of local communities by preventing the spread of blood-borne viruses and by reducing the rate of discarded used injecting equipment. Overall provision of To have a needle exchange / harm reduction services (type and location) will be determined based on a local needs analysis undertaken by the specialist commissioners. All community pharmacies Sutton will be given the opportunity to consider offering to provide this service. The INSPIRE Partnership intends to commission a minimum of 4 pharmacies spread across Sutton to participate in key contact within each aspect of this scheme. Due to the changing nature of drug misuse trends there may be a need to review these locations as the needs assessments are updated. Level of Provision The pharmacy will agree to provide the service on pharmacy premises for the full duration of opening times. Pharmacies are expected to provide a minimum of 15 transactions per month to continue to participate in the Needle Exchange Scheme. INSPIRE will review activity via NEO and will consult with pharmacies team who may be falling below the minimum requirements. Joint working Promoting patient understanding of the NHS and Recovery Services Governance Arrangements Standard A – Joint Working Work within local protocols and arrangements outlined in the Service Specification for Needle Exchange (Appendix 1). Be the point of contact for any queries concerning scheme. Ensure initial and on-going training is available as requiredto give out specialist safer injecting advice. Share with commissioners’ responsibility for the co-ordination, maintenance and review of the scheme. Ensure that pharmacies are adequately stocked with needle exchange equipment, and appropriately supported to carry out the service. Ensure NEO is updated for every transactions and the mandatory information is completed. Ensure arrangements are in place to process payments. Ensure compliance with the scheme by providers commissioned by the INSPIRE Partnership (i.e. pharmacies)Pavilions will provide bespoke support when needed.
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Sources: Service Level Agreement