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Poster presentation:
Exploring smoking cessation issues in the prison setting - experiences from the North East
Kerry Lynch, Deborah Scott and Kent Flanigan
Abstract
The workshop will involve participants in discussions, exploring issues and solutions to problems faced by Stop Smoking Services in prisons.
To set the scene there will be a presentation on services developed in the four prisons in Durham and Northumberland, outlining key issues encountered and ways in which these have been addressed.
The second part of the workshop will give participants opportunities to raise issues faced in their own localities. These will be debated and discussed and as a result hope to inform participants thinking and practice on return to their localities. Although not a full list of potential issues, the presenters anticipate the following issues being aired and will prepare examples of practice in relation to each to stimulate discussion:
* Use of NRT and Zyban - types available, DH funding, Pharmacuetical company funding.
* Access to prisons and prison staff - gatekeepers, escorts, central sessions, services on the wings, "The detail" and security comes first.
* Adhering to protocols, systems and ways of working.
* Training needs - Intermediate Advisors and involvement on completion of training.
* Capacity of Stop Smoking Services to deliver to this hard to reach, minority group - labour intensive, small population, one of several hard to reach groups.
* Champions.
At the end of the workshop participants will have been able to share experiences and help each other to identify possible solutions or ways forward on return to their localities.
Biographies
Since graduating with a BEd (Hons) in 1993 Kerry Lynch has worked for the last 13 years in the Health Promotion setting, involved at all levels in the development of Tobacco Control and Smoking Cessation interventions with a wide range of age groups. She studied for her MSc in Health Sciences part time and graduated in 1997.
She started in her current role in 1999 and has been responsible for setting up and coordinating the Stop Smoking Services in this Health Action Zone.
Kerry was Vice-Chair of the Regional Tobacco Alliance from 2003 - 2005 and is currently chair of the Northumberland local tobacco control network.
Kerry has presented at various local regional and national conferences, including the UK Department of Health to inform other regions in the UK on the model of service delivery in the North East, sharing their successes. She is a regular guest speaker at the local University.
Deborah Scott has worked as a Specialist Advisor with a Community briefing for the past two years. Prior to this she worked as a Practice Nurse, being heavily involved in Smoking Cessation and other respiratory issues.
Deborah graduated in 2004 with a Community Nursing degree and has been delivering a service in Durhams 3 prisons for the past year and is able to refelect upon these experiences in the workshop setting.
Prior to Kent working as a Specialist Advisor with a community remit in the Stop Smoking Services in 1999, he was employed as a Psychiatric Nurse in a range of institutions across the North. He has been delivering a service in the prison in Northumberland for the last 5 years and has good experience to share.
Author 1: Kerry Lynch
Tobacco Control Coordinator
Northumberland Stop Smoking Service
Epsom Drive
Ashington
NE63 8BD
Author 2: Deborah Scott
Author 3: Kent Flanigan
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