Smoking Cessation Service
Essential Training
See page 5 of the Service Specification
PharmOutcomes Video Guides
NHS Smoking Cessation Hospital Referral
NHS Smoking Cessation Pharmacy Follow-up
LPC Resources
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July 2025 Update for Worcester Acute Trust and Wye Valley Trust
There have been some changes to the provision of smoking cessation provision to inpatients within both Worcester Acute Trust and Wye Valley Trust that may impact on the national smoking cessation discharge service.
At Worcester Acute, although all in-patients will continue to receive Trust -provided NRT, in line with Trust policies, provisions of NRT above and beyond that by the ICB will now not be provided. However, the patients will continue to receive full cessation behavioural support by a trained adviser.
At Wye Valley Trust, similarly, in-patients with tobacco will receive NRT during their stay in line with their own in-patient policies . However, at this site, the only behavioural support that will be offered will be brief interventions/MECC.
Referrals will continue to be made from both sites to community pharmacies. Note however that although patients will likely be discharged with *some* NRT, both Trusts will no longer be discharging patients with up to 2 weeks of NRT. These patients will still be eligible for the service and therefore this should not lead to a reduction in referrals. The impact might be that patients have a more immediate need for NRT supply through the service than was previously needed.
