Guidance

Smoking cessation in secondary care: acute and maternity settings

Self-assessment framework for NHS acute trusts to develop local action to reduce smoking prevalence and the use of tobacco.

Documents

Guidance on smoking cessation in secondary care in acute settings: self-assessment tool

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Details

The self-assessment tool breaks down the NICE guidance into 4 areas:

  • systems required to implement the guidance
  • communication required
  • training that will help staff to successfully implement the recommendations
  • treatments that should be available to support staff and service users

This self-assessment tool supports all of the recommendations applicable to acute services in the NICE guidelines on Smoking cessation in secondary care.

Please save the self-assessment file to your computer and click ‘enable editing’ before using it.

Public Health England has also developed a suite of resources including a self-assessment tool to support the implementation of NICE guidance in mental health settings.

Published 9 March 2017