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Provision of foil in Sheffield via needle exchange services
Anne Boid, Needle Exchange Worker and Patrick Crowley, Turning Point Adult Treatment Services, Sheffield
Abstract
Turning Point Sheffield had previously considered issuing foil via the two needle exchange services for a while after we had service users asking if we supplied it. It was only after hearing about the success of Turning Point Somerset that our service manager gave the go ahead for a 6 month trial to research if there was a need for it in Sheffield and to secure funding from the DAAT.
After consulting with Turning Point Somerset, we contacted South Yorkshire Police and with their full support, we began to distribute foil via the site based needle exchange and the mobile needle exchange.
This presentation will look at the data collected within this 6 month period, which was eventually produced as a report. We will discuss this report and give updated information on our current progress in foil distribution.
We will achieve this through statistics and anecdotal evidence using power point presentation.
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Biographies
Anne Boid and Patrick Crowley both work within the Tier 2 service at Sheffield Turning Point and both specialise in harm Reduction and safer injecting. We both deliver safer Injecting and Harm reduction advice internally and externally across the city. Anne has been in post for over 4 years and Patrick in post for over 3 years.
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