NEW SERVICE LAUNCH! - Gateshead Substance Misuse Wellbeing Check Service

Gateshead & South Tyneside LPC is delighted to announce the launch of an innovative new service in Gateshead.  The LPC has been working behind the scenes with the commissioners at Gateshead council to bring this new service to you.  

The service is a really valuable addition to the substance misuse service already commissioned in Gateshead.  It enables pharmacies to be remunerated for the extra care and support they often already provide to their substance misuse patients.

Patients can be referred into the service either through

• self referral or
• by the Pharmacy or
• by Gateshead Recovery Partnership.

This may be when you have concerns about a patients health, give harm reduction advice, when you are inducting new patients onto the service or when the Recovery Partnership need to pass information onto their clients but are struggling to contact them.

Each provision needs to have the patients consent and is shared with Gateshead Recovery Partnership for the ongoing care of these patients.  Full details of the service are contained in the service specification.

There are no additional training requirements and the specification for this service is now included in the supervised consumption service that you will have already signed up to. The service provision attracts a £15 fee.  Click here to view the Service Specifications

The service will be operated via PharmOutcomes and should be live in your systems now.