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Poster presentation
Developing a hospital based smoking cessation service
that meets the needs of both the patients and the staff
Paul Steele
Abstract
The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation has been providing
smoking cessation support in Liverpool since 1994 through
its community stop smoking service Roy Castle Fag Ends.
The service was developed by a group of people who had
just quit smoking and was originally provided by trained
'lay' volunteers. It is currently provided by trained
employees, not necessarily from a nursing or medical background.
Due to the success of the community based service, in
2001 Roy Castle Fag Ends were asked to provide the Smoking
Cessation support to both staff and patients within the
hospital setting across Liverpool.
The hospital support service has had to overcome a number
of barriers to enable it to reach everyone within the
hospital and to allow it to be a success.
The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital
trust are situated on two separate large sites within
Liverpool and have approximately 1,184 beds, around 6,000
trust staff and around 1,800 contractors who cover the
two sites.
One of our main barriers with this support was that staff
were not always able to attend clinics within the hospital,
as they found it difficult to break from their duties
due to staffing problems and patient needs.
By removing these barriers the number of staff referrals
has increased. For Example in Q4 2004 - 2005 we estimate
that around 75 staff and patients will be seen, this figure
is an increase of over 50% on the figures recorded the
same time last year.
As the hospital's plan to go completely smoke-free, the
smoking cessation support has become increasingly important
and is constantly adjusting in the response to the needs
of both patients and staff.
Running this kind of service within a Hospital setting
is extremely rewarding but at the same time very challenging.
This presentation will explain fully the principles behind
the service and also give an in depth look at how it works
in practice.
Paul Steele
Senior Smoking Cessation Advisor,
Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation,
200 London Road Liverpool L3 9TA
Tel: 0151 794 8829
steelep@roycastle.liv.ac.uk
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