The Pharmacy Needle and Syringe Program Newsletter

Features:

• Reduction in Sharps Order Frequency
• The Guild has received information about the following communicable diseases.
  • Syphilis
  • Measles
• Spotlight on Ocular Syphilis
• Hepatitis C in Primary Care

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Features:

• Queensland Health pharmacy visits
• Reduction in maximum quantity for sharps orders
• About the QNSP: Back to basics

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Features:

• International Overdose Awareness Day – 31 August, 2025
• The Take Home Naloxone Program
• Complete your Eftsure payment verification by 1 September 2025
• Bin collection delays

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Features:

• Ordering sharps kits
• Alert: Confirmed detection of Carfentanil in Queensland
• Hepatitis B infections
• Clade 1 mpox case confirmed in SE Queensland
• World Hepatitis Day
• The Needle and Syringe Program Queensland CPD accredited module
• Insight semester 2, 2025 webinar calendar out now!
• ASHM education library

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Features:

• QLD Hot Topic Webinar: Enhancing Hepatitis C Responses in AOD Settings: Testing, Treatment & Beyond
• Update on Sharps Orders
• Reminder: Sharps Kits to Be Sold for $3

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Features:

• Brand change to sharps packs
• Sharps orders interruptions
• Bin collections in the NEW 25/26 financial year
• Insight/Dovetail understanding drugs eLearning modules

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Features:

• Bin Collection Caps
• Alcohol and Other Drugs
• Public and Sexual Health
• Education

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Features:

• Sharps Orders
• Bin Collections
• Queensland Guild Office Closure
• Changes coming to sharps kits
• Hepatitis Treatment Fund
• Applications Now Open - World Hepatitis Day Community Grants 2025

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Features:

• Insight semester 1 webinar calendar now available
• Updated resources
• Sharps orders
• ADF resources: New stigma posters
• Queensland Positive People AOD Project

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Features:

• 2024 end of year closure
• Bin collections
• Sharps orders

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Features:

• The Needle and Syringe Program Queensland CPD Accredited Module
• Medications used for HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) experiencing supply shortages in Australia
• Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland
• Australia’s Annual Overdose Report 2024
• HIV S100 Co-payment Waiver Program
• Education Opportunities - Insight

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Features:

• Funded 120L Bin Collections
• International Overdose Awareness Day
• The Take Home Naloxone Program
• Sharps orders and bin collections

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Features:

• Join the Mighty Liver Quest this World Hepatitis Day
• Bin Collections in the NEW 24/25 financial year
• Sale of sharps kits
• Training: Dispensing HIV and Viral Hepatitis Medications for Community Pharmacists

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Features:

• Bin collections in the NEW 24/25 financial year
• Sale of sharps kits

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Features:

• Sharps orders in early April and over Easter
• Queensland s100 HIV Co-payment Program
• Australia’s Chief Medical Officer calls on health professionals to combat syphilis

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Features:

• Sharps disposal bin delays
• Sale of sharps for injectable medicines
• Make STI testing Your "Beforeplay" – Department of Health Campaign
• PEER Q-NECT: QuIVAA's new AOD peer support line
• MHPOD learning portal upgrade

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Features:

• Holiday delays and closures
• 2023 Summary
• National HIV Self-Testing Project

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Features:

• Sharp Kits Reminder
• QLD s100 HIV Patient Co-Payment Program
• Queensland Positive People  - Digital Literacy Workshops for People Living with HIV

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Features:

• Contents of Sharps Kits - Filters
• Australia’s Annual Overdose Report
• Take Home Naloxone (THN) Program Update
• Long-Acting Injectable Buprenorphine Fact Sheet

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Features:

• International Overdose Awareness Day
• Motivate C Project
• Take Home Naloxone training course
• Long-Acting Injectable Buprenorphine course

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Features:

• World Hepatitis Day is almost here!
• What are the five things your pharmacy can do to support World Hepatitis Day?
• Hepatitis C
• Hepatitis B
• Bin Collections

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Features:

• Needle and Syringe Program Annual Survey
• Bin Collections in the New 23/24 Financial Year
• Bin Information Reminder
• Updating Your Pharmacy's Details

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Features:

• Needle and Syringe Program Annual Survey
• Upcoming Training
• Bin Collection
• Updating Your Pharmacy's Details

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Features:

• NSP bin terms and conditions recap
• Excess sharp stock
• Boomerang bag donations

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Features:

• Bin program refresher
• ASHM's harm minimisation education
• Take Home Naloxone Program

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Features:

• QNSP Mobile Phone App Updates
• HIV Self-Testing Kits
• Harm Minimisation Education Opportunities
• Monkeypox Alert
• TRUE Sexual Health Clinic
• Bin Collection
• Updating Your Pharmacy's Details

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Features:

• NSP Program
• Stigma & discrimination in NSP settings
• Let's Treat Syphilis campaign
• Take Home Naloxone Program
• Updating your pharmacy's details

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Features:

• 2022 Summary
• Give the Gift of a Healthy Liver this Christmas
• Lady Peeps Project by TRUE Australia
• World AIDS Day
• Updating your Pharmacy's Details

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Features:

• Christmas closures
• Needle & Syringe Program Update
• Upcoming harm minimisation training and education opportunities
• Take Home Naloxone Program
• Updating your Pharmacy's Details

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Features:

• Hepatitis C in NSP Settings
• STI Campaigning
• Take Home Naloxone Program
• Bin Collections and Sharps Order Forms
• Updating your Pharmacy's Details

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Features:

• Harm reduction
• Upcoming events
• Take Home Naloxone Program
• World patient safety day
• World Pharmacists Day

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Features:

• STI Campaigning
• The Take Home Naloxone Program
• Pharmacy Connect 2022 - Harm Minimisation Workshop
• Reminder: 120L bin collection caps and sharps order forms
• Updating your pharmacies details

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Features:

• World  Hepatitis Day
• Hepatitis C
• Hepatitis B
• World Hepatitis Day Events via ECCQ
• Training and education opportunities for pharmacists
• Reminder: New 120L bin collection caps and sharps order forms
• Updating your details

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Features:

• 120L Bin Collection Caps
• Who funds the NSP?
• How can my patients dispose of their sharps waste now?

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Features:

• Reminder: Sharps disposal bin collections have ceased until 30 June 2022.
• Why did the PNSP start?
• What's changed since the PNSP started?
• What is the future of the PNSP?
• We request more than two collections per year as our pharmacy receives a lot of sharps waste, what does this mean for our patients?
• What should we do with our vaccine waste?
• NSP Annual Survey
• Access past NSP Newsletters
• Updating your details

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Features:

• Where does the funding come from for the Pharmacy Needle and Syringe Program?
• Reminder: Sharps disposal bin collections to cease for the rest of this financial year!
• Summary of options?
• Why doesn’t the Guild ask for more funding from Queensland Health?
• What do my community members do with their sharps?
• What do I do with my pharmacy sharps waste?
• Access past Newsletters

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Features:

• Sharps bin collections to decrease and/or cease
• What do my community members do with their sharps?
• What do I do with my pharmacy sharps waste?
• Commercial versus community-generated waste
• Access past Newsletters

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Features:

• Queensland Health Sharps Disposal Bins Warning
• Delays to Sharps Orders and Bin Collections
• Sharps ordering and bin collection request forms
• Updating your details

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Features:

• Thank you and Merry Christmas!
• Rapid HIV Testing Program
• 2021 Summary
• Sharps ordering and bin collection request forms
• Updating your details

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Features:

• Collecting community generated sharps waste
• Harm minimisation - patient referral
• Sharps ordering and bin collection request forms
• Updating your details

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Features:

• AOD resource finder - alcohol and other drug agencies
• NSP bins - not for COVID-19 or Flu vaccination waste
• Harm minimisation - drug use and pregnancy
• Sharps ordering and bin collection request forms
• Updating your details

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Features:

• Program T&Cs - ordering and selling sharps kits
• Harm minimisation - providing sterile injecting equipment
• NSP bins - not for COVID-19 or Flu vaccination waste
• Sharps ordering and collection request forms
• Updating your details

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Features:

• NSP Survey: we want your opinion!
• Wear it purple day - gender diversity
• NSP bins - not for COVID-19 or Flu vaccination waste
• Harm minimisation - is Syphilis on your radar?
• Sharps ordering and bin collection request forms
• Updating your details

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Features:

• NSP Survey: We want your opinion!
• 'Get Smart' about liver health this July
• NSP sharps bins: not for COVID-19 or Flu vaccination waste
• Harm minimisation: educating your community
• Sharps ordering and bin collection request forms

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Features:

• 'Get Smart' about your liver
• Enhancing harm reduction services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
• Can your vaccination sharps waste go into the NSP bin?
• Harm minimisation - it's broader than BBV
• ASHM invites community pharmacists in QLD to attend online training in Viral Hepatitis Medications

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Features:

• FREE training - dispensing HIV & Viral Hepatitis Medications: An update for community pharmacists
• Health and safety reminder
• Are you meeting all Needle & Syringe Program conditions
• Sharps ordering and bin collection request forms

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