17 February 2010
SystmOne to Support Stop Smoking Quarterly Returns
All organisations that provide NHS Stop Smoking Services are obliged to produce a quarterly return. SystmOne will soon support these returns.
The return enables monitoring of the use and success of the Stop Smoking Services for those in different socio-economic groups, the success of different treatment models and enables more comparisons across PCTs.
The NHS Stop Smoking Services Quarterly Monitoring Return is typically submitted by PCT-based NHS Stop Smoking Service Co-ordinators via a web-based data collection tool hosted by the NHS Information Centre (IC). Information is then collated and analysed by the IC and published via the IC website.
Smoking remains the main cause of preventable morbidity and premature death, accounting for 87,000 deaths a year in England alone. It is the primary reason for the gap in healthy life expectancy between rich and poor. Additionally it is estimated to cost the NHS around £1.5 billion a year to treat illness and disease associated with smoking.
The NHS Quarterly Monitoring Return was established in order to monitor the effectiveness and performance of the service.
The return includes information such as the numbers of patients for whom a Smoking Quit Date has been set, the numbers of successful/unsuccessful quitters, and their ethnicity, gender, age, pregnancy status, economic grouping, treatment type, intervention, and intervention setting.
SystmOne users who run Stop Smoking Services will be able to run the return in a similar way to the existing NDTMS extract. Being able to collate all the required information in one report will save services a great deal of time.
Smoking facts
- Second-hand smoke contains 4,000 toxic chemicals.
- Virtually all enclosed public spaces and workplaces in England are now smoke-free.
- About 106,000 people in the UK die each year due to smoking.
- In 1972 just under half of adults in the UK were smokers.
- Now, just over a quarter of UK adults are smokers.
