Transcript Systems_in_Secondary_Care

Developing and Delivering
Systems in Secondary Care
What are the Systems required
• Staff training in Very Brief Advice
• Referral opportunity at all stages
• Mechanism for referrals – electronic, fax, paper
• Process for referrals
• Support for staff, patients and visitors
• Information for staff, patients and visitors
• Withdrawal management
• Communications – newsletter, posters, leaflets, letters
• Smokefree Policy
Smokefree Policy
• Support in production
• Coherent, consistent and concise
• Compliance/disciplinary procedures
• Management
• Hospital Smokefree Steering Group
• Hospital champion
Training
• E learning for Very Brief Advice for all staff
– mandatory?
• Face to face training – where might this
be appropriate
• Specialist training – midwives
• Stop Smoking Practitioner training
Referrals
• Patient’s journey from Primary Care to
discharge
• Process – universal
• Mechanisms for referral
• Willing referrers
Stop Smoking Medications
• Offered throughout the whole patient
journey
• Withdrawal management
• Support to stop if required
• NRT on formularies
• NRT on admission and discharge
Staff
• Smoking on site
• Taking patients out to smoke
• Information and guidance
• Stop Smoking Support groups for staff
• Occupational Health and HR involved
• Adherence to Smokefree Policy
Communications
• Member of Comms team involved
throughout all of the systems
• Accessing all mediums for getting out the
message
• Stop Smoking messages to be released
at optimum times – knowledge of other
promotions/initiatives – avoid clashes
• Ongoing