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Contact details
PCT/Health board Wirral
Service name: Wirral Stop Smoking Service
Contact name: Sue Smethurst
Contact email: Susan.smethurst@wirralpct.nhs.uk
Contact address: Health and Wellbeing Team
Gibraltar House
Kelvin Road
Wallasey
CH44 7JW
Contact tel: 0151 630 8383
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Service details
Subscribe to
Russell Standard?
Yes
Additional data collected:
3-month self-reported quitter
CO-verified 3-month quitter
6-month self-reported quitter
CO-verified 6-month quitter
9-month self-reported quitter
CO-verified 9-month quitter
12-month self-reported quitter
CO-verified 12-month quitter
   
Before quit date:
Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND)
Cigarettes per day (CPD)
Partner smoking status
Mental health
Physical health
Past quit attempts
   
After quit date:
Withdrawal symptom data
Medication use
   
Any additional data collected:
We attempt 3, 6 and 9 month progress thro monthly letters and offer Drop in up to 12 months.
Do you record the information that you submit to the Department of Health on a database? Yes
Do you enter additional
data on to a database?

Yes

Service model:
Closed groups
Open (or rolling) groups
Drop-in clinics
One-to-one support
Family/couple support
Telephone support
  Other: None
   
  Treatment from part-time community advisors:
    Community pharmacists
    Practice nurses
    Health visitors
    Mental health nurses
    Pharmacy assistants
    GPs
    Surgery reception staff
    Midwives
    Prison staff
    Youth workers
    Dentists
Abstinence rates:
CO-verified 4-week abstinence rates:
  2007-08 36%
  2006-07 Not Supplied
  2005-06 Not Supplied
     
Self-reported 52-week abstinence rates:
  2007-08 Not Supplied
  2006-07 Not Supplied
  2005-06 Not Supplied
     
52-week abstinence rate assessed by:
 
CO-verified
Telephone
Letter
     

Sample used: Not Supplied

     
How 52-week abstinence rate figures are obtained:
We do not have 52 week success rate at this moment as we have just got a new database and having teething problems!!

 

 

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