{"id":299,"date":"2025-07-14T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/wound-clinic\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T18:35:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T17:35:50","slug":"wound-clinic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/wound-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Wound Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Every Thursday<\/strong>
10.30am to 1.30pm<\/strong>
@ The Exchange Lady Lawson Street<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This clinic is run by Specialist Nurses. It is a drop in service \u2013 no referral or appointment is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The clinic offers a confidential service for people with concerns about injecting sites or skin damage from drug use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The clinic offers wound and injecting injuries assessment and advice, together with treatment including leg ulcer assessment and compression therapy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wound care team have led a campaign called ‘Below the Belt’ to raise awareness of damage caused by injecting below the waist. View the ‘Below the Belt’ Poster<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also offer injecting injuries training, usually four times a year based at Spittal St. For more information about training contact loth.woundcaretraining@nhs.scot<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contacts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For enquiries please call reception and ask for  Alison or Ailish on 0131 537 8300  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Every Thursday10.30am to 1.30pm@ The Exchange Lady Lawson Street This clinic is run by Specialist Nurses. It is a drop in service – no referral or appointment is required. The clinic offers a confidential service for people with concerns about injecting sites or skin damage from drug use. The clinic offers wound and injecting injuries assessment and advice, together<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/widewidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-299","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"davidmcbain","author_link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/author\/davidmcbain\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"Every Thursday10.30am to 1.30pm@ The Exchange Lady Lawson Street This clinic is run by Specialist Nurses. It is a drop in service – no referral or appointment is required. The clinic offers a confidential service for people with concerns about injecting sites or skin damage from drug use. The clinic offers wound and injecting injuries assessment and advice, together","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/299\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}