Agenda item

Commissioning and Performance Manager (Public Health)

The Board noted that following the release of the NICE Tobacco Control Harm Reduction Guidance in 2013 officers had developed a pilot programme to implement the recommendations within the guidance. The report describes to Members the

six month pilot programme, which included:

a. The supervised use of electronic cigarettes within the specialist level III

service

b. Further research regarding the use of electronic cigarettes and other harm

reduction methods that are emerging

c. An extension to the current level II smoking cessation service (within

pharmacies) for those finding it harder to quit, at advisor discretion, for a

longer service than the standard 12 weeks

d. Developing care pathways for a pilot harm reduction service to run from level

II services that can work with the current commissioned service, including a

“cut down” service, and the supervised use of electronic cigarettes.