Current status: Answered by Neil Gray on 22 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what data will be (a) collated and (b) published from the safer drug consumption facility, The Thistle.
Data generated from the day-to-day running of the Thistle Service will be recorded and collated by Glasgow HSCP alongside a range of routine data from other Health and Social Care services to enable a comprehensive evaluation. This includes data to assess:
1.Extent to which people use the service,
2.Interventions provided within the service (such as reviews of injecting practice, peer support and referrals into drug treatment); and
3.Public Health outcomes such as incidence of drug overdose, Accident and Emergency attendances and drug deaths, uptake of testing for HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C and engagement in addictions treatment and care.
Data collated for evaluation will be published in due course in aggregate form. The format and timeline for these publications has not been set but likely to consist a full evaluation report which will be published in a few years’ time as well as an interim report which will be produced in the nearer term.