Services Database Smoking Cessation Treatment Programme within Community Pharmacies (Oxfordshire)

Service Aim

• In line with national guidelines, Smokefree Oxon aims to help and encourage local health services to deliver the most effective and most cost- effective services to encourage people who smoke to quit; ensuring that all clients can make a fully informed choice of where and how they receive support to quit.
• All Pharmacies are expected to provide essential and those additional services they are contracted to provide to all their clients. This service specification outlines the more specialised services to be provided. The specification of this service is designed to cover the enhanced aspects of clinical care of the client, some of which are beyond the scope of essential services. No part of the specification by commission, omission or implication defines or redefines essential or additional services.