The future for tobacco control and smoking cessation in England: Our vision for the next 5 years
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Tabitha Brufal Deputy Director, Tobacco and Health Improvement Policy, Department of Health
Biography
Tabitha is Deputy Director for Tobacco Control and Health Improvement at the Department of Health. The focus of the team’s work is on developing and implementing policy on tobacco control, including tobacco control legislation and guidelines for stop smoking services.
The team published the Tobacco Control Plan for England in March 2011. This plan sets out how tobacco control will be delivered in the context of the new public health system, focusing in particular on the action that the Government will take nationally over the next five years to drive down the prevalence of smoking and to support comprehensive tobacco control in local areas.
Previously she was Deputy Director of the Quality Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) Programme. The programme was established to help the NHS identify 15-20 billion of efficiency savings per annum by 2014. The programme now includes a workstream on prevention, which is focussed on smoking cessation and reducing harmful consumption of alcohol.
Tabitha joined the Department of Health in 2000 from the NHS where she worked as a clinical psychologist.
