To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is his Department's policy to continue the NHS Tobacco dependency programme for people accessing community mental health services.
Answered on
14 June 2023
As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England is funding seven pilots across England to test different models of tobacco dependency care within specialist mental health community services. This will provide insight into how to tailor effective tobacco dependency services for patients with serious mental illness in community settings, but also to inform any further policy development in this area.
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Department of Health and Social Care
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