Put drug overdose kits on the street to save homeless people's lives The Salvation Army has called for naloxone to be made widely available in public places to prevent drug deaths and save lives

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Our team were in Westminster this week teaching MPs to use naloxone. (and hopefully educating, advocating and pushing for our policy calls...). Nice to be meeting need and pushing for societal change at the same time.

Does anyone know if there are any 'letters of comfort' around crack pipes / safer inhalation devices in the UK?

I'd had heard of them in Devon and Cardiff. But I'm hearing now the home office may have withdrawn these? Anyone heard similar?

Thanks!

I think we just get complacent when we're winning or playing a poor team. Couldn't believe how little pressing was going on at the start of the second half. We just sat back and let them come to us. I'm no expert really, but it's a really obvious difference to when we're really going for it.

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It had your usual dose of realism but also felt like a bit of a call to action which was helpful. Take it easy.

If you're still adding, please add me. I'm an inclusion health GP in Norwich and have a national role for The Salvation Army around harm reduction in supported accommodation. Thanks!

If you're still adding..I'd like to be added please. I'm a GP working in inclusion health in the UK. But also responsible for harm reduction in our 80 or so @salvationarmyuk.bsky.social hostels.

👋 Brilliant - thank you.

Thanks @euanlawson.social for this:

"We might be standing on the threshold, wide-eyed with horror in a liminal space, but we're not helpless either & that is, perhaps, where the hope lies. Whatever your cause, there is no final fateful diagnosis already encoded. We can organise. And we can resist."

New figures reveal Brexit costing UK business £37bn a year Exclusive: Billions of pounds worth of lost business with other European Union countries prompts calls to re-enter customs union and single market

£37bn a year. Let that sink in.

GP Crisis

GPs are currently doing 1m advice & guidance requests to 2’ care

4m more people waiting for hospital treatment than 2019, 1/9 of the population

31m consult GPs/month

GPs awarded £889m extra just 4% of the £22bn given to NHS as an uplift

GPs get £10bn just 5.6% of total NHS budget

@thesalvationarmy.bsky.social had a number of naloxone policy calls to government. Sounds like this would be a good one!

Can it really be true than only four nhs trusts in England have access to take home naloxone for use on discharge?? That’s extraordinary! Thanks for the presentation Ben.

Too many examples of practices asking ‘Are you registered?’ And if the answer is no that’s the end of the road. Patient could be bleeding to death, no attempt to triage for urgency. Not good enough. #inclusionhealth2025