Download here. You can study at your leisure abstracts of the presentations at this summer's smoking cessation trade fair – most of them, that is, except the one for the presentation by public health minister Anne Milton, which was not available at the time of going to press (see p. 50).
The subject areas are harm reduction; prisons, probation and mental health; payment by results; campaigns; tactics of the tobacco industry.
In the middle of the brochure there is (as one might expect) a helpful section called 'Information from our sponsors', starting with a full page of 'information' about Champix, followed by 'information' about other kinds of smoking cessation medications (can double your chance to quit), followed by 'information' about a helpful organisation called the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training, which does pretty much what it says on the tin. Out there in the real world we could call this 'information' advertising, indicating the clear possibility of a commercial interest in the success of the conference, but we wouldn't want anyone to think that the pharmaceutical interests in question had anything to gain from government-endorsed smoking cessation campaigns, surely? (shhh, don't tell the World Health Organisation!)
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Thursday, 30 June 2011
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Introducing the NHS Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training. Your smoking cessation career starts here!
It's almost Pythonesque, the numbers of people who are being trained specifically to stop others from smoking with (or without) the use of drugs.
As mentioned at the beginning of the year the UK National Smoking Cessation Conference takes place in June, this year in London. I described in then as a trade conference, but it is even more serious than that. It's a training agency, aiming to train and give certification to people who want to develop competence in their role of smoking cessation advisers/practitioners.
Behind the UKNSCC however looms another organisation, National Centre for Smoking Cessation Training (NCSCT), created from a winning bid by a consortium led by University College London to provide an accreditation system for smoking cessation advisers. (Is this what Tony Blair meant all those years ago by 'Education, Education, Education'?)
The organisation does have an 'ethical policy', which shows its main players have 'interests which might have a bearing on the independence of their judgement in relation to their work for the NCSCT': namely that they have received hospitality from Pfizer (manufacturer of Champix), or the Department of Health.
Here is their quarterly report for April to June 2010, which includes the news that 'On the 27th May 2010 the NCSCT was officially informed that it is now an ISO 9001 certified organisation (certificate number: FS 559421)'. Well, that's also reassuring. As is the long list of links.
Transatlantic allies offer full accreditation for smoking cessation-related activities across the pond (supported by Pfizer). Isn't it nice that we'll soon have as many words for smoking cessation as the eskimos have for snow?
Book here for the conference in London. You'll probably get a refund from your employer, and maybe something for accommodation (it's only London after all!)
As mentioned at the beginning of the year the UK National Smoking Cessation Conference takes place in June, this year in London. I described in then as a trade conference, but it is even more serious than that. It's a training agency, aiming to train and give certification to people who want to develop competence in their role of smoking cessation advisers/practitioners.
Behind the UKNSCC however looms another organisation, National Centre for Smoking Cessation Training (NCSCT), created from a winning bid by a consortium led by University College London to provide an accreditation system for smoking cessation advisers. (Is this what Tony Blair meant all those years ago by 'Education, Education, Education'?)
The organisation does have an 'ethical policy', which shows its main players have 'interests which might have a bearing on the independence of their judgement in relation to their work for the NCSCT': namely that they have received hospitality from Pfizer (manufacturer of Champix), or the Department of Health.
Here is their quarterly report for April to June 2010, which includes the news that 'On the 27th May 2010 the NCSCT was officially informed that it is now an ISO 9001 certified organisation (certificate number: FS 559421)'. Well, that's also reassuring. As is the long list of links.
Transatlantic allies offer full accreditation for smoking cessation-related activities across the pond (supported by Pfizer). Isn't it nice that we'll soon have as many words for smoking cessation as the eskimos have for snow?
Book here for the conference in London. You'll probably get a refund from your employer, and maybe something for accommodation (it's only London after all!)
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