Following a meeting with STARS (in South Tyneside), and a discussion with Gateshead Council, the LPC has agreed that methadone/buprenorphine supervision services will restart from 1st October. You may have already seen some communications about this from your commissioner.

Contractors will begin seeing prescriptions this month, as clients are reviewed and allocated back to supervisions or otherwise. 

In some cases the supervision regimen will be the same as previously (pre-COVID-19), but in the majority of cases there may be changes due to the review based on a client risk assessment.

The LPC urges contractors to contact STARS or CGL if circumstances change within your pharmacy following a risk assessment, and you are unable to offer supervision services.

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Sami