Tobacco Control in Prisons and Criminal Justice Settings: Tobacco Control Coordinator Demonstration Project in the North West
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Susan MacAskill, Michelle Baybutt, Stephen Woods and Jennifer McKell
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Susan MacAskill Senior Researcher, Centre for Tobacco Control Research, University of Striling and the OU | Abstract Prisons and the wider Criminal Justice System (CJS) represent valuable settings for smoking cessation and tobacco control, endorsed by ‘A Smokefree Future’ and the ‘Tobacco Control Plan’. Offenders are highly likely to smoke (80% prisoners) and they are predominantly from disadvantaged backgrounds, experiencing additional health inequalities.
This is the first tobacco control project that has attempted to work across and, where possible, join up key settings. Through the appointment of a Regional Tobacco Control Coordinator it aims to:
• Develop and share learning across the CJS and relevant partners/alliances;
• Target groups within the CJS;
• Develop functioning systems for the provision of support and care pathways across the CJS and into the community;
• Provide substantial learning for the Department of Health, contributing to a national plan and monitoring.
The Coordinator is working across the CJS and with relevant NHS, social care and voluntary providers, commissioners and alliances. Current work includes mapping provision, circulating a newsletter, hosting a Development Day and working with key stakeholders. On-going evaluation is built-in.
Developing activities and emerging learning will be presented. This is one of six health inequalities pilots funded by DH under the auspices of the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies.
| Source of funding: This is one of six inequalities in health pilots run under the auspices of the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, funded by the Department of Health
| Declaration of interest: None
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