Services Database Stop Smoking Service
Service ID
100269
Description
The aim of this service is to increase the availability of Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) via a voucher and Varenicline via a Patient Group Direction, free of charge to all clients registered with an NHS Sheffield /CCG GP, through community pharmacies in Sheffield.
The service will comprise of two tiers for smoking cessation:
Tier 1 - Universal Service
This service will be available for smokers who live in Sheffield and are not categorised as being from a priority group.
Tier 2 - Priority Service
Available to smokers who live in Sheffield and who are identified as being from a priority group.
Priority groups:
- routine and manual workers;
- black and ethnic minority;
- mental health;
- learning disability;
- offenders;
- most deprived neighbourhoods in Sheffield;
- immediate households of pregnant women who are being supported to quit through specialist stop smoking midwives;
- LGBT;
- UK Armed Forces Veterans; and
- any household with children under 19.
Location of service
Sheffield LPC
Commissioner
Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
Method of commissioning
Source of funding
Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
Service type
Stop smoking
Other organisations involved
Dates
Start date:
End date:
Status
Ongoing
Training
Not known.
