Advanced service specification: NHS community pharmacy smoking cessation service
This service is a branch of the wider aim of supporting hospital patients to continue their stop smoking efforts after discharge, which is expected to increase 1-year quit rates by 11% &, when implemented, is expected to save NHS £85m in healthcare resource use within 1-year.
Source:
NHS England
SPS commentary:
From today and to mark National No Smoking Day yesterday, 'NHS help to kick the habit' will be available in every local pharmacy which signs up to offer the service. This means that smokers who are admitted to hospital and encouraged to quit can get help from their nearest chemist as well as being able to choose the site that is most convenient for them. The radical action is part of the NHS Long Term Plan to offer tobacco treatment services to all hospital inpatients by 2023/24.