Needle Exchange

We provide an extensive range of equipment in our needle exchange at 2 Sexton Road, Blyth, and give advice on which equipment is to be used for different injecting sites. Harm Reduction is given around safer injecting and wound care as well as advising clients what we offer as a partnership to begin their path to recovery. We also provide full Blood Borne Virus testing for Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV and this is done via a dried blood spot finger test. Advice is given to each individual client around this and they are supported by our service through treatment from beginning to end.

Needle exchange provision is also available via a number of community pharmacies in Northumberland as follows;

• Ashington:
  • Boots, 28-30 Station Road. 01670 812 142
  • Lloyds, Seaton Hirst Medical Centre. 01670 812 035
  • Crescent Pharmacy, 110 Alexandra Road. 01670 858 959
• Bedlington:
  • Boots, 1 Station Street. 01670 823 251
• Belford:
  • Belford Pharmacy, 22 West Street. 01668 213 285
• Berwick:
  • Boots, 60-68 Marygate. 01289 306 036
• Blyth:
  • Boots, 21a Briardale Road. 01670 356 545
  • Blyth Health Centre, 30 Bowes Street. 01670 362 111
• Cramlington:
  • Lloyds, 9 Brockwell Centre. 01670 733 981
• Haydon Bridge:
  • Haydon Bridge Pharmacy, 5 Church Street. 01434 684 354
• Hexham:
  • Boots, 7 Fore Street. 01434 602 024
• Newbiggin by the Sea:
  • Well Pharmacy, 1 Cleveland Terrace. 01670 816 799
• Prudhoe:
  • Boots, 77 Front Street. 01661 836 438
• Wooler:
  • Glendale Pharmacy, 26 High Street. 01668 281 343