{"id":106,"date":"2024-05-16T18:51:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T17:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/nhs-borders\/pharmacy-services\/injecting-equipment-provider-iep\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T16:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:30:26","slug":"injecting-equipment-provider-iep","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/pages\/pharmacy-services\/injecting-equipment-provider-iep\/","title":{"rendered":"Injecting Equipment Provision (IEP)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/SLA-IEP-Final-v1-June-24.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/SLA-IEP-Final-v1-June-24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IEP SLA 2024\/27 v1 &#8211; June 2024<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/media\/2599\/reducing-harm-booklet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reducing Harm Booklet<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/media\/8688\/iep-participants-feb-24.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IEP Participants List &#8211; February 2024<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The essential points distilled from the Reducing Harm Booklet are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>IEP is a valuable public health intervention and should be seen a \u2018core service\u2019 and maintained as such.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The prevalence of HIV amongst those people injecting drugs in GGC has never been higher (11% in Glasgow City Centre), therefore we need to maintain and promote IEP to reduce the likelihood of sharing injecting equipment, even through this difficult time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We have no limits on the amount of equipment that can be taken. In fact, we are encouraging clients to take away enough for 2 weeks at a time. Be prepared for this and keep stock levels high.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The NEO database should be used to record all transactions as this demographic and transactional information is invaluable to us.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Providing equipment is easy, it all comes packaged together in what we term \u201cone hit kits\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We have 3 sizes of one hit kits. These are colour coded and relate to needle size.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We also provide water for injection, foil and sharps containers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For those injecting steroids we have a handy glasses case which is prefilled with equipment for intramuscular injection.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No equipment should be withheld from clients if they do not have returns. Returns can be taken to any IEP in NHS GG&amp;C.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Those clients using the pharmacy for OST should also have confidential and unrestricted access to IEP.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All clients accessing IEP should be offered Naloxone frequently.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All equipment is ordered through Frontier. If unsure of the order process contact John Campbell by email:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:john.campbell@ggc.scot.nhs.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">john.campbell@ggc.scot.nhs.uk<\/a>&nbsp;or telephone: 0141 303 3931 and he will order.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The pharmacy Addiction Services team contact number is 0141 303 8931.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responsible Person: Amanda Laird<br>Last Updated: 19\/07\/24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nhsuk-card__description\">The essential points distilled from the Reducing Harm Booklet are: Responsible Person: Amanda LairdLast Updated: 19\/07\/24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":69,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-106","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1880,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions\/1880"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}