Topic-specific Advisory Group: needle and syringe programmes
A topic-specific advisory group was established to review and advise on the content of the commissioning guide. This group met once, with additional interaction taking place via email.
Chris Carmona
Public Health Analyst, Centre for Public Health Excellence, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
Helen Cosnett
Clinical Nurse Specialist and Harm Reduction Coordinator, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust
Christopher Coupe
Clinical Governance Manager, Substance Misuse Lead, Joint Commissioning Team, Manchester Primary Care Trust
Claudine Evetts
Hepatitis Nurse Practitioner, Addaction Walsall
Colleen Hart
Service Manager, Addaction Walsall
Sally Hughes
Regional Manager, National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, East Midlands
Hugo Luck
National Programme Lead (Policy), National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, London
Tony Mercer
Joint Commissioning Manager, Birmingham Drug and Alcohol Action Team, Heart of Birmingham Primary Care Trust
Alan Neill
Needle Exchange Coordinator, Manchester Drugs Service, Greater Manchester West NHS Mental Health Trust
Graham Parsons
Medicines Management Adviser/Pharmacist Prescriber (Substance Misuse), NHS Plymouth
Gary Rickwood
Strategy Manager, Wirral Drug and Alcohol Action Team, Wirral Primary Care Trust
Roweena Russell
Harm Reduction Strategy Manager, Drug Action Team, North Tyneside Primary Care Trust
This page was last updated: 02 March 2012
- Needle and syringe programmes
- Commissioning needle and syringe programmes
- Specifying needle and syringe programmes
- Determining local service levels for needle and syringe programmes
- Assumptions used in estimating a population benchmark
- The commissioning and benchmarking tool
- Ensuring corporate and quality assurance
