This one-day course has been developed to give an understanding of the role pharmacy-based Needle and Syringe Programmes play alongside drug and alcohol services, based on national NICE guidance. It will inform delegates of best practice and recognised harm reduction messages to be used when working with injecting drug users, along with an underpinning knowledge of currently injected substances and their associated risk factors.
Learning Objectives
To understand the basis of harm reduction
To gain an overview of NICE national guidance for NSP
To understand the role pharmacy based NSP plays within NICE national guidance
To give a range of harm reduction advice
To give advice on equipment selection
To understand the importance of data collection and its limits
To understand the issues around sharing equipment
To understand which drugs are commonly injected and their associated risk factors
To be able to identify a wide range of associated risk factors
To present accurate facts and figures of injecting risks nationally
To understand how injecting equipment is used in real world situations
To give an overview of common injecting related health issues
To give a basic overview of steroid injecting issues