Innovation in delivery – ‘mobile go anywhere stop smoking service’?

Author and presenters
Leena Sankla
Project Director, Solutions 4 Health Ltd, Reading, UK

John Rodway
Operations Director, Solutions 4 Health Ltd, Reading, UK

Abstract
This presentation will outline an innovative approach to delivering stop smoking services, by using a ‘mobile stop smoking clinic’, to be able to provide a mobile, community-based, go anywhere service! This services has been rolled out across Croydon, Portsmouth and Buckinghamshire and has been successful in targeting areas of highest smoking prevalence, disadvantaged areas, council estates and industrial areas with routine and manual workers by actually taking the service to their ‘door step’. Initial results have been very encouraging and this presentation will provide data on the number of people who set a quit date, demographics, FTND and four week co-validated quit rates

Declaration of interest: none

About the presenters
Leena Sankla has overall responsibility for a number smoking cessation projects, being rolled out across England that are commissioned by PCT. Her particular expertise is in reaching hard to reach groups, specifically BME groups, socially deprived groups and routine and manual workers. She has a long-standing knowledge of smoking and tobacco control, including shisha use and tobacco chewing and delivers these courses to healthcare professionals and trading standards officers.

She has worked closely with ITV and BBC on a number of health watch programmes and has lectured for the WHO at St Georges Hospital, International Centre for Drug Policy and works closely with the Advocacy Forum for Tobacco Control (AFTC), at the Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. Leena is also a Master Trainer on Chronic Disease Management from Stanford University.