Needle Exchange service Kensington Chelsea & Westminster
Needle exchange service
The needle exchange service in Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster supplies needles, syringes and other equipment used to prepare and take illicit drugs. The service is centred around the promotion of better health protection for intravenous drug users and to reduce the transmission of blood-borne viruses such as hepatitis B and C, and other infections caused by sharing injecting equipment.
Needle exchange services also aim to reduce the harm caused by injecting drugs through providing information and advice and acting as a gateway to other services, including drug treatment centres.
Needle exchange is not just for people who inject drugs but also for those who use steroids or other performance or image enhancing drugs (PIEDs), Psychoactive compounds, chemicals, plants and Methamphetamine, Ketamine or other medicines.
The requirements for the service are set out in the Turning Point Specification for Needle and Syringe Program and the community pharmacy agreement.
Turning Point undertakes an annual audit to review quality of the service provision works closely with pharmacies and the local LPC over the lifetime of the Agreement to review and agree any changes and provide a minimum of 28 days’ notice to terminate where it is identified that quality standards are not met or if the demand is not there.
The needle exchange service is available from 10 pharmacies in Westminster.
| Community pharmacies offering needle exchange services Pharmacy | Address | Locality |
| Victoria Pharmacy | 22 Page Street, Westminster, London | Vincent Square |
| Bayswater Pharmacy | 39-41 Porchester Road, Bayswater, London | Bayswater |
| Warwick Pharmacy | 34-36 Warwick Way, London | Pimlico North |
| Portmans Pharmacy | 93-95 Tachbrook Stret, London | Pimlico North |
| Browns Chemist | 195 Shirland Road, London | Maida Vale |
| Boots | 107 Victoria Street, London | Vincent Square |
| Benson Pharmacy | 276 Harrow Road, London | Westbourne |
| Safeer Pharmacy | 194 Edgware Road, London | Marylebone |
| Market Chemists | 91-93 Church Street, London | Church Street |
| Boots | 44-46 Regent Street, Piccadilly Circus, London | West End |
The needle exchange service is available from 4 pharmacies in Kensington and Chelsea
| Spivack Chemist | 173 Ladbroke Grove, London | Notting Dale |
| Golborne Pharmacy | 106 Golborne Road, London | Golborne |
| Baywood Dispensing Chemist | 239 Westbourne Grove, London | Colville |
| Boots | 254 Earls Court Road, London | Earl’s Court |
