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Stop smoking interventions in secondary care – a national approach to support and guidance for commissioning and delivering
Emma Croghan, Smoking Cessation Service Delivery Manager, Department of Health, London, UK, Sue Gunnion, Commissioning Adviser and Gary Shield, Costing Analyst (Commissioning), National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, London, UK
Abstract
This presentation will outline the national support and development programme offer for commissioning (via online commissioning tools) stop smoking support in secondary care settings. It will go on to outline the development and implementation plan for an initial pilot phase, then rollout of, a national approach to supporting all smokers who enter secondary care. This programme aims to support ethos change in secondary care to maximise the potential to reach and support smokers to stop, and to maximise the potential of any planned or unplanned secondary care interventions via cohesive and evidence based support mechanisms and systems.
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About the presenter
Emma Croghan, is the Smoking Cessation Service Delivery Manager for the Department of Health. As such she is the lead at DoH in developing, overseeing the implementation and evaluation of the new stop smoking interventions in primary care (a systems based approach) project as well as the secondary care project. She was previously a smoking cessation co-coordinator and has also been an advisor for many years. Emma is a previous winner of a National Research Fellowship as well as the National Excellence in Nursing Awards. She is an RGN RSCN and RSCPHN by professional background.
Sue Gunnion is a Commissioning Adviser at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. She has been responsible for leading and coordinating the development of the NICE commissioning guide: Smoking cessation service for people having elective surgery.
Sue is a nurse who has led on innovations in the management of long term conditions, most recently developing a multi disciplinary Active Case Management Service with the aim of preventing emergency admissions. Preventative healthcare has featured within many of the service roles she has held, smoking being one of her personal priority areas.
Gary Shield is a Costing Analyst at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. He has been responsible for leading the production of the commissioning tool that accompanies the NICE commissioning guide: Smoking cessation service for people having elective surgery. Gary is an accountant and prior to joining NICE was employed in various finance roles within the NHS, most recently within the Costing and Planning department of an acute trust.
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