PH0172 - Stop Smoking Service - AWARD

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council is seeking tenders from suitably qualified economic operators for the provision of a Stop Smoking Service. Brief Description of the Service Requirements Operating as a preventative and a clinical programme that focuses on behaviour change; Sandwell Stop Smoking Service has a vision of enhancing health and wellbeing, improving physical and psychological quality of life and reducing the risk of disease and illness in individuals, families and communities.

The new Sandwell Stop Smoking Service aims to be an efficiently delivered universal service which prioritises the needs of smokers and oral tobacco users in our population that need the service the most. Core to service delivery is innovation and flexibility to respond to emerging developments such as advances in technologies, new research findings and newly identified needs.

The success of this will be measured by the number and quality of referrals made to the service o Engagement of key stakeholders in the tobacco control and smoking cessation agenda. This success of this will be measured by the number of individuals, groups and communities engaged by the service provider to facilitate positive developments to increase the number of smokers treated and to reduce the prevalence of smoking in Sandwell. o Intensive cessation support that is delivered to high quality standards by adequately trained persons.