PROVISION OF SMOKING CESSATION
SERVICES
Earmarked funding
A Breath of Fresh Air for Scotland announced that £1m
would be made available for smoking cessation services with
effect financial year 2003/4 rising to £5m in 2005/6. In
addition, the Executive announced on 9 March 2005 that
these allocations would continue in the following 2
financial years 2006/7 and 2007/8 and that a further £2
million would be made available with effect from 2006/7,
rising to £4 million in 2007/8 for smoking cessation
services.
Specific funding made available to NHS Boards for
smoking cessation services NHS Boards since 1999 is as
follows:-
Source | 99/00 | 00/01 | 01/02 | 02/03 | 03/04 | 04/05 | 05/06 | 06/07 | 07/08 |
"Smoking Kills" * | £1m | £1m | £1m | £1m | £1m | £1m | £1m | £1m | £1m |
Health Improvement Fund * | | | £1m | £1m | £1m | £1m | £1m | £1m | £1m |
"A Breath of Fresh Air" | | | | | £1m | £1m | £5m | £5m | £5m |
National No Smoking Day | | | | | | | | £2m | £4m |
TOTAL | £1m | £1m | £2m | £2m | £3m | £3m | £7m | £9m | £11m |
Note:- * Now part of NHS Boards' unified budgets.
NHS
MEL(1999)38 SMOKING KILLS: A WHITE PAPER ON TOBACCO NEW
NHS SMOKING CESSATION SERVICES
NHS
CIRCULAR: HDL(2001)64/NHS SMOKING CESSATION
SERVICES
Allocation Letters
September 2003
June 2004
December 2004
March 2005
Smoking Cessation Guidelines
This additional funding will allow the further expansion
and targeting of services to meet local need. The Smoking
Cessation Guidelines for Scotland: 2004 Update and the
companion desktop guide Encouraging Smokers to stop: What
you can do which were published in September 2004, provide
up to date evidence on effective smoking cessation
interventions and practical guidance on the planning and
delivery of smoking cessation services.
Link to revised Smoking Cessation Guidelines -
http://www.hebs.scot.nhs.uk/services/pubs/pdf/SmokingCes2004.pdf
Partnership Action on Tobacco and Health
The Scottish Executive funded initiative Partnership
Action on Tobacco and Health (PATH) which was launched in
June 2002, was specifically set up to support tobacco
control activity through gathering and disseminating
evidence of best practice, the development of training
standards and recommendations on information management and
data collection. A Breath of Fresh Air commits the
Executive to continued investment in PATH to support
enhanced tobacco control activity envisaged in the
Plan.
Link to ASH Scotland for more info on PATH -
www.ashscotland.org.uk