This contract is for the provision of a Stop Smoking Service for County Durham.The County Durham Sustainable Community Strategy identifies smoking as the main cause of preventable morbidity and premature death and the primary reason for the gap in healthy life expectancy between rich and poor. Reducing smoking is therefore seen as the most important step in narrowing the gap between life expectancy in County Durham and England as a whole.
The Stop Smoking Service function consists of two elements:
i) Programme management of the service, including recruitment and performance of level 2 stop smoking service providers.
ii) Direct provision of stop smoking service by specialist stop smoking advisors to key target groups.