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Safer Drug Consumption Facility
Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP), NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) and other partners have worked to develop the first Safer Drug Consumption Facility (SDCF) in Scotland and the United Kingdom.
SDCF - Background information
There are over 100 Safer Drug Consumption Facilities (SDCF) worldwide including Europe, North America and Australia.
SDCFs offer a compassionate, person-centred service which focuses on reducing the harms associated with injecting drug use and helps people access appropriate services to meet their needs.
SDCF - Service user information
Safer drug consumption facilities (SDCFs) are supervised healthcare settings where you can consume your own drugs, obtained elsewhere, under the supervision of trained health and social care professionals, in clean, hygienic and safe environments reducing the risk of overdose.
You will receive a compassionate service which focuses on reducing the harms associated with injecting drug use and will be given the opportunity, if desired, to access other support services.
SDCF - Local communities
Safer Drug Consumption facilities (SDCF) were first established in Switzerland in the 1980’s. There are now more than 100 of these facilities worldwide, which has resulted in extensive research and evaluation of the impact on local communities.
The general themes from this research show that following the opening of SDCFs:
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Item No 07 - Integrated Childrens Service Plan 2023 - 2026 - Consultation and Engagement Process
To provide the IJB Public Engagement Committee with detail of the consultation and engagement process with children and young people to develop the Children’s Services Plan 2023-2026.
Item No 08 - Representation of Younger People’s Voices for the Public Engagement Committee
The purpose of this report is to feed back to the Public Engagement Committee (PEC) work on how to consider younger people’s voices being represented at PEC. This includes work that Business Development were tasked with to map how younger people are being engaged with across the HSCP, wider council family and stakeholders with the purpose of how the committee can be informed by this work.
Item No 09 - Dissemination of Vitamin D Supplements by Glasgow City Health Improvement to BAME Communities within Glasgow
To update the committee on the recent delivery of a programme of work to disseminate excess Vitamin D supplements to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities.