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drug and alcohol treatment and support services for
young people, adults, families and carers throughout
Oxfordshire
Harm Reduction and
Needle Exchange
Oxford City Harm Reduction Service
Telephone Gavin Rogers: 07760 777348
Based at O'Hanlon House, Speedwell Street, Oxford.
Or telephone SMART on 01865 403151
Provides harm reduction advice, information and resources
for anyone with drug use concerns regardless of the
legal status of the drugs involved. The OCHRS also provides
a needle exchange service and SWOP packs. The staff
are all trained in Harm reduction and you can also access
referrals to other services.
Oxfordshire User Team (OUT) Workshops
Telephone: 01865 209111
4a James Street, Oxford OX2
Monthly Overdose Prevention and Response and Hepatitis
C workshops, aimed at drug users and carers are delivered
by OUT.
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Safer Injecting
More details coming soon.
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Needle Exchange
Needle exchange is a specific harm reduction intervention
to reduce the spread of blood borne viruses and reduce
the risk of overdose.
Needle exchanges provide clean injecting equipment,
including needles and syringes and also arrange for
the disposal of the used equipment. Needle exchange
provision takes place in a number of different settings
including pharmacies.
Free needle packs and safe disposal of used equipment
provided from pharmacies and specialist harm reduction
services throughout Oxfordshire.
Services provided:
- Clean injecting equipment and paraphernalia
- Written harm reduction advice and information (including
safer injecting and sexual health)
- Condoms
- General Healthcare screening
- Advice on immunisation and testing for Blood Borne
Viruses
In Oxfordshire needle exchange services in pharmacies
are part of the Sterile Works for Oxfordshire Premises
(SWOP) scheme. The pharmacies offer a very important
service that allows injecting drug users to access free
sterile equipment, whilst also providing a means of
safe disposal. SWOP
leaflet.
The following are details of SWOP and other needle
exchange services that are available in Oxfordshire:
SWOP pharmacies
*Steroid Injecting SWOP packs are available at the
following pharmacies, in addition to the regular opiate
SWOP packs.
Jenners Pharmacy,2 Manzil Way, Oxford OX4 1GE
Cox & Robinson, Southbar House, Southbar, Banbury
OX16 9AB
Bretts Ltd, 11-12 Millbrook Square, Grove, OX12
7JZ
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Shared Care Pharmacies
Pharmacies in Oxfordshire are playing a key role in
providing services to drug users.
Community Pharmacists are part of the Shared Care scheme
for drug users in Oxfordshire. The Community Pharmacies
work as part of a team alongside the General Practitioners,
Addictions Nurses and patients. Community Pharmacies
are located throughout Oxfordshire to provide easy access
and choice to drug users on supervised prescriptions.
The pharmacy Shared Care service is formalised through
a local enhanced service in partnership with the Oxfordshire
DAAT and Primary Care Trust (PCT). For a list of pharmacies
in the Shared Care scheme please click here.
Pharmacists working in the Shared Care scheme have
completed the Centre of Postgraduate Pharmacy Education
(CPPE) learning pack- Opiate Treatment : Supporting
pharmacists for improved patient care, or more recent
equivalent. Many pharmacists have successfully completed
the Royal College of General Practitioners, Certificate
in the Management of Drug Misuse in Primary Care, Parts
1 and 2.
Pharmacists providing Shared Care offer a service to
drug users that includes:
- Dispensing Supervision of methadone or buprenorphine
- Liaising as appropriate within the Shared Care
team
- Safe storage of medicines
- Harm reduction advice
- General health advice
- Sexual Health advice
- Signposting to other services
- Medicines management
The drug user is asked to sign a consent
form by the pharmacist at the start of prescribed
treatment, which outlines the service and allows the
pharmacist to share information with other members of
the shared care team, on a need to know basis only.
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Overdose Prevention
More details coming soon.
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User involvement
Oxfordshire DAAT recognises that effective user involvement
informs commissioning processes and improves treatment
provision and outcomes for individuals.
OVERVIEW
Oxfordshire DAAT supports Oxfordshire User Team (OUT)
in representing drug users in local decision making
and promoting harm reduction. It also supports services
in developing user involvement mechanisms and other
related user groups. Service user involvement is imbedded
into all strategic service development and commissioning
processes with service user representation on commissioning
groups and at DAAT board level.
User involvement is central to the National Treatment
Agency's treatment effectiveness agenda, and D(A)ATs
are required to evidence user involvement in annual
treatment plans.
Oxfordshire DAAT strives to advance involvement on
three levels:
- Promoting involvement in individual care
- Through providing information on quality standards,
rights and responsibilities in accessing services
and promoting robust care planning and review processes
that fully involve the service user and their families
where appropriate. There is also an emphasis on ensuring
that service users and their families are given up
to date information on drug and alcohol awareness
and treatment options. OUT play a vital role in this
by distributing information via their outreach services
across the county. Advocacy services are also prioritised
as a means of enabling service users and families
to get their voices heard. Independent advocates speak
up for, and with, service users and help them to make
their own decisions and contributions..
- Encouraging involvement in service provision
- Service user, and where appropriate family feedback
on existing services highlights both problem areas
and good working practice. Service user participation
in service planning, delivery and evaluation is an
invaluable organisational resource that also offers
opportunities for social inclusion and personal development
to the service user.
- Ensuring consultation in strategic decision making
- Ongoing service user and family input into the planning
of drug and alcohol treatment provision and policy
setting removes barriers, improves access to treatment,
strengthens quality standards and widens choice. Annual
service user satisfaction surveys are an essential
tool in ensuring that the views of past, current and
potential service users are fully considered throughout
the treatment planning process. Where appropriate
this will be expanded to include the views of families.
Oxfordshire DAAT's new three year strategy 'Involving
service users and their families in the planning, development
and commissioning of drug and alcohol treatment services
across Oxfordshire (2009-12)'.
User
involvement strategy.
For further information please contact Glenda Daniels
at Oxfordshire User Team
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