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  • Introduction

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    • Evidence shows Very Brief Advice can help to trigger a quit attempt among people who smoke. This resource is aimed at health professionals and other allied health professionals working in a wide range of settings who have interactions with people who smoke. It includes GPs, nurses, health visitors, midwives, dentists, and pharmacists not providing specialist smoking support within their service.

      It may also be of interest to anyone, who is likely to come into contact with people who smoke in their day to day work and is interested in their health and wellbeing e.g. leisure staff, community workers and voluntary sector staff, money advice or welfare rights officers, housing officer, prison staff, police and fire services.

    • Learning outcomes

      • Explain what very brief advice on smoking is, the purpose and its benefits
      • Introduce very brief advice into your interactions with people who smoke
      • Reflect on your own role and be aware of the support and services available to help people to stop smoking

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  • Public Health Skills and Knowledge Framework

    • This resource can help you to develop knowledge which supports the following functions of the framework:

      A2 - promote population and community health and wellbeing, addressing the wider determinants of health and health inequalities

      A5 - audit, evaluate and re-design services and interventions to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities

      C2 - communicate with others to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities.

      View the full PHSKF framework