Injecting Equipment Provision (IEP) from community pharmacy
The purpose of injecting equipment provision (IEP) is harm reduction. The provision of injecting equipment is effective in reducing injecting risk behaviours in people who use drugs. This intervention helps prevent the transmission of blood borne viruses such as hepatitis C and HIV among people who inject drugs.
Community pharmacies are an important outlet for IEP in the NHS Lothian area, providing clean injecting equipment and taking back used equipment for safe disposal. There is also an opportunity to deliver other harm reduction interventions, including advice on safer prescribing and signposting to other services.
Injection Equipment Provision Standard Operating Procedure (updated August 2014)
Pharmacy IEP sites in Lothian
| HSCP LOCALITY | PHARMACY NAME | ADDRESS | POSTCODE | TELEPHONE |
| Edinburgh SE | Boots UK Ltd | 46-48 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh | EH2 4SA | 0131 225 6757 |
| Edinburgh NW | Lindsay & Gilmour Chemist | 228-230 Crewe Road North, Edinburgh | EH5 2NS | 0131-552 4253 |
| Edinburgh NE | Lindsay & Gilmour Chemist | 257a Leith Walk, Edinburgh | EH6 8NY | 0131 554 6591 |
| Edinburgh SE | Newington Pharmacy | 46-50 Clerk Street, Edinburgh | EH8 9JB | 0131 667 2368 |
| Edinburgh SE | Omnicare Pharmacy | 102 Walter Scott Avenue, Edinburgh | EH16 5RL | 0131 664 2363 |
| Edinburgh SW | Omnicare Pharmacy | 1 Ardmillan Terrace, Edinburgh | EH11 2JN | 0131 337 1604 |
| Edinburgh NE | Craigmillar Pharmacy | 58-60 Niddrie Mains Road, Edinburgh | EH16 4BG | 0131 661 2662 |
| Edinburgh SW | M&D Green – Mackinnon Pharmacy | 291 Calder Road, Edinburgh | EH11 4RH | 0131 455 7073 |
| Midlothian W | Rowlands Pharmacy | 55 Clerk Street, Loanhead, Midlothian | EH20 9RE | 0131 440 0511 |
| East Lothian W | Bankton Pharmacy | Hawthorn Road, Prestonpans, East Lothian | EH32 9QW | 01875 811280 |
| East Lothian E | Right Medicine Pharmacy | 20 High Street, Haddington, East Lothian | EH41 3ES | 01620 822 361 |
| East Lothian W | Eskside Dispensing Chemist | 165 High Street, Musselburgh, East Lothian | EH21 7DE | 0131 665 2146 |
| West Lothian W | Dunamis Pharmacy | 27 Elizabeth Drive, Boghall, Bathgate, West Lothian | EH48 1SJ | 01506 653867 |
| West Lothian E | Healthful Pharmacy Dedridge | 157 Nigel Rise, Dedridge, Livingston, West Lothian | EH54 6LX | 01506 461732 |
| West Lothian E | Omnicare Pharmacy | 6 Main Street, Deans, Livingston | EH54 8BE | 01506 411695 |
| West Lothian W | Blackburn Pharmacy | 2a Sycamore Walk, Blackburn | EH47 7LH | 01506 813 720 |
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Last updated 10/6/25 BC, JN & EBR