Dave Jones Tobacco Control Programme Manager, Public Health England
Linda Hennigan Head of Business Development, National Offender Management Service, London
Abstract
On 23 September 2015 Prisons Minister Andrew Selous announced the intention to move towards a smokefree prison estate. Early this year, four early-adopter prisons in England became the first to implement complete smokefree areas for staff and prisoners. This session will be focused mainly around participation in workshops, feedback and discussion.
Agenda
Introduction to smokefree prisons (10 mins) Linda Henningan
Introduction to workshops (5 mins) Dave Jones
Workshops 10 mins discussion on each topic (20 mins) Delegates
Feedback (20 mins) All
Panel discussion (15 mins) All
Total time 75 mins
Workshops
Workshops will be undertaken in groups of 5 or so individuals and these will be encouraged to be made up of groups of people who would not usually work together. This session will provide delegates with the opportunity to partake in both discussions and feedback their responses.
Workshop 1 – Once people are received into the custodial system the vast majority of smoking cues are removed. We would like you to consider what a stop smoking service might look like in this environment? What would stay the same? What can change? What are the outcomes that stop smoking services should measure to ensure that they are providing high quality interventions?
Workshop 2 – Forced abstinence could lead people to deciding that they will start smoking as soon as they are released from prison. What can be done to help those individuals develop other decisions which have healthier outcomes? What about those people who are not smoking and want to have continued support on leaving prison?
Following the feedback, the panel will have an opportunity to reflect on that feedback and there will be time to take a few direct questions.
Learning outcomes
Delegates
1. To engage with members of the national prisons project and implementation boards about the movement to smokefree prisons
2. To develop their understanding of what cessation in smokefree prisons could look like
3. To develop their understanding of how interventions in and out of prison can be linked to continued cessation resulting in long-term success
Panel
1. Gain insight from delegates as to the ‘temperature in the room’ around smokefree prisons
2. Gain useful insight into two of the leading questions important for the successful delivery of and maintenance of cessation
