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Smoking: Greater Manchester

Volume 497: debated on Wednesday 14 October 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people in (a) Bolton and (b) Greater Manchester have received assistance from the NHS to stop smoking in each of the last five years. (291645)

The information is not available in the format requested. The following table shows the number of people setting a quit date and the number of those who successfully quit smoking through national health service stop smoking services in the Bolton primary care trust (PCT) and Greater Manchester, 2004-05 to 2008-09.

Bolton PCT1

Greater Manchester strategic health authority (SHA)2'3

2004-05

Number setting a quit date3

2,336

39,131

Number of successful quitters4

1,749

18,973

2005-06

Number setting a quit date3

3,846

45,282

Number of successful quitters4

2,158

21,383

2006-07

Number setting a quit date3

4,742

44,177

Number of successful quitters4

2,206

21,174

2007-08

Number setting a quit date3

5,724

52,405

Number of successful quitters4

2,320

22,838

2008-09

Number setting a quit date3

3,934

49,100

Number of successful quitters4

1,718

20,153

1 Bolton PCT was unaffected by the PCT restructuring which took place in October 2006.

2 Figures for Greater Manchester SHA were calculated using the constituent PCTs for 2004-05 to 2006-07. Although this SHA did not exist in subsequent years as a result of restructuring, the new PCTs which the constituent old PCTs mapped to have been identified in order to produce figures on the same basis for comparability in 2007-08.

3 These data are based on figures collected through the quarterly stop smoking services data collection return. If a person sets more than one quit date in the quarter, the details of each attempt should be recorded on the form.

4 A client is counted as having successfully quit smoking at the four week follow-up if he/she has not smoked at all since two weeks after the quit date.

Notes:

1. The figures provided for 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07 have been extracted from the corresponding annual Statistics on NHS stop smoking services in England report for each of these years. These publications have already been placed in the Library.

2. Bolton PCT figures provided for 2007-08 and 2008-09 have been extracted from the corresponding annual Statistics on NHS stop smoking services in England report for each of these years. Greater Manchester SHA figures were not published in these later reports2. These publications have already been placed in the Library.

3. On the basis that the clinical viewpoint tends to be that a client should not be counted as a ‘failure’ if he/she has smoked in the difficult first days after the quit date, a client is counted as having successfully quit smoking if he/she has not smoked at all since two weeks after the quit date. The four week follow-up (and Carbon Monoxide (CO) validation, if appropriate) must be completed within six weeks of the quit date. Persons not contacted within this time are treated as lost to follow-up for evaluation purposes.

4. Only people who set a quit date through the NHS stop smoking services are included in the quarterly monitoring returns, those who attend the service but do not set a quit date are not included.

5. NHS stop smoking services data are based on the PCTs which provide the service. People using their services are not necessarily resident in that PCT.

6. The information centre for health and social care collects data from the NHS stop smoking services as part of the NHS stop smoking services quarterly monitoring returns forms, undertaken since 2005 on behalf of the Department.

Source:

The Information Centre for health and social care