Public Health England: What the future holds for stop smoking services
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Author(s)
Peter Kelly
Presenter(s)
Professor Peter Kelly Acting Regional Director of Public Health, NHS North East / Public Health North East, Newcastle upon Tyne
Abstract
The responsibility for commissioning smoking cessation services will transfer from Primary Care Trusts to local government on 1st April 2013. Currently the performance management of smoking cessation services is robustly managed by the Department of Health through Strategic Health Authorities against the metric of four week quitters. This particular metric is not included in the public health outcomes framework for local authorities and the direct smoking metrics in the framework are smoking in pregnancy measured as smoking status at time of delivery, smoking prevalence in adults and smoking prevalence in children aged 15.
Local Authorities are mandated to commission only a small range of services and whilst there is a long list of other services they will be responsible for, including tobacco control and smoking cessation services, there is a greater element of choice in commissioning such services according to local priorities. This presentation will explore these issues and will set out to make the case to continue and if necessary increase investment in this vital service.
Source of funding: None
Declaration of interest: Currently Board member of ASH, Board member of NHS Tees and Acting Regional Director of Public Health at North East SHA.
