Services Database Smoking Cessation (Salford Area)

Aims of the Locally Commissioned Service for smoking cessation:

• To reduce smoking related illnesses and deaths by helping people to stop smoking.
• To improve access to and choice of smoking cessation support services closer to people’s home, workplace, and leisure.
• To provide timely access to an early assessment of potential smoking related harm.
• To provide a timely intervention to reduce the number of people who smoke.
• To help people identify and access additional treatment by offering timely referral to specialist services where appropriate.
• To minimise the impact on the wider community by reducing the levels of smoking and the associated second-hand smoke that may be inhaled by the people’s family and friends.

The service currently consists of two tiers, and pharmacies are commissioned to deliver either Tier 1, or Tier 1 and Tier 3 combined, providing the Pharmacy meets the commissioner’s requirements (see Appendix 1). The tiers are set out below.

• Tier 1 – NRT Supply and Medicines Advice
• Tier 3 – Oral Medication Supply

Note. Tier 2 services (Behavioural Support, follow up, monitoring & recording with NRT supply) are no longer commissioned in Salford. This change means individual requiring behavioural support will need to be referred to the Community Stop Smoking Service.

The section below sets out the training requirements for each level of the service.

Evidence of competencies must be retained within each pharmacy (for all pharmacists, locums and staff delivering this service). Evidence of competencies must be dated within the last 3 years and retained within a folder, which will be requested at times of pharmacy inspections.

Before commencement of the service all staff will read the service specification and complete and provide evidence of completion of the Tier related requirements as outlined below.

Tier 1

All relevant pharmacy staff will be trained to offer brief advice or brief intervention through competition of NCSCT online brief advice/intervention module

(https://elearning.ncsct.co.uk/vba-launch)

Tier 3

The registered healthcare professional authorised to operate under this PGD must have:

• Undertaken appropriate training and successfully completed the competencies to undertake clinical assessment of individuals leading to diagnosis of the conditions listed.
• Undertaken appropriate training for working under PGDs for the supply and administration of medicines with the recommended training - eLfH PGD eLearning programme.