Transcript Tobacco Control Health Needs Assessment Norfolk 2014

Stop Smoking Services
Vicki Wash
Advanced Public Health Officer
Specification Overview
Lot 3a: Stop Smoking Service Provision
• Level 2 Service : multi-session interventions (weekly support,
initially face to face, can also include telephone support).
• Flexible Training Packages
• Record Outcome on Service Database
• Attendance at yearly training updates
Lot 3b: Supply of Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT)
• The supply of NRT in accordance with the Protocol for direct
supply of Nicotine Replacement Therapy by Competent nonClinical Advisors of the Stop Smoking Service in Norfolk.
Key Points
Changes to specifications;
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To focus on:
Quit Outcomes (encourages follow up)
Quality Service Provision
Improved access to NRT
• To address the issues of disparity of terms between:
o Providers: e.g. GP and Pharmacies
o Geography: i.e. the former PCT areas of Norfolk and Gt
Yarmouth & Waveney.
Changes to Payments
Proposal that payments terms are changed, i.e. increase in payments
for quits, encourage flexible follow up.
Lot 3a:
• Quarterly payment for successful 4 week quit (entered on
database)*
• £80 per quit (CO verified or self report quit)
* No payment for quits entered after Q4 deadline
Lot 3b:
• Quarterly reimbursement of NRT (Drug Tariff Cost) plus 5% VAT
• £2 per item type dispensed
• Minus prescription costs collected
• Claims to be made electronically