title: Provision of clean injecting equipment.
abstract: Providing clean needles and syringes to injecting drug users is one established strategy to prevent the spread of HIV and other blood borne infections ( 1 ). Our A&E department had been faced with problems from intravenous (IV) drug users requesting clean injecting equipment, and we wanted to know how other A&Es dealt with such requests, and whether they experienced similar problems.
authors.affiliation: Undertook this survey while a junior sister in the A&E department at Lewisham Hospital, London. She is currently employed as sister in the A&E department at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Larsen
authors.affiliation: A&E department, Lewisham Hospital, London.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kemp