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Development of a ten-year tobacco control strategy using outcome-focussed planning within NHS Ayrshire and Arran. Elaine Young Senior Manager Public Health. What I am going to talk about…. Why strategies are important What relevance strategies have to practitioners
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Development of a ten-year tobacco control strategy using outcome-focussed planning within NHS Ayrshire and Arran Elaine Young Senior Manager Public Health
What I am going to talk about…. • Why strategies are important • What relevance strategies have to practitioners • How we approached writing our strategy • Lessons learned from writing our strategy
Why strategies are important “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” Lao Tzu
Why strategies are important “By not acting, we are killing people”. Nicola Roxon, Minister for Health in Australia, who championed plain packaging
What relevance strategieshave to practitioners • Variety of posters and presentations here today from Ayrshire and Arran, but why are we working on these areas? • Prison – using Varenicline • Hospital – respiratory opt out project • Hospital into community – follow up • Veterinary practices – second hand smoke
…because - they are part of our strategy - practitioners’ objectives flow from this strategy- we can clearly show budgetary spending
How we approached writing our strategy • Our director had a vision….
How we approached writing our strategy • ….about using outcome focussed planning i.e. looking at • long term, intermediate and short term outcomes for tobacco control • how these connect to the national outcomes • the local actions required to meet these outcomes along with appropriate performance measures
How we approached writing our strategy • Step 1: We formed a Tobacco Leadership group with members from Public Health and Policy, Planning and Performance Department • Step 2: We developed a project plan and Volume 2 – fact file describing epidemiology, current services, local issues “where are we now in relation to tobacco control”
How we approached writing our strategy • Step 3: We held an initial stakeholder event:
How we approached writing our strategy Outcomes triangle Logic models Multiple results chains
How we approached writing our strategy • We discussed how we might wish to change these national logic models to reflect our local situation • We then spent some time in workshops collating activities/actions which we thought would result in these locally agreed short term outcomes
How we approached writing our strategy • Step 4: Brought together a multi-disciplinary strategy development task and finish group who used the information from the stakeholder event to develop our draft strategy and action plan over a period of 3 meetings
How we approached writing our strategy • Step 5: We engaged widely with community planning partners and the public on our draft strategy and action plans and amended the documents accordingly
How we approached writing our strategy • Step 6: We took the draft strategy and action plan through our management structures to the NHS Board requesting that it was endorsed for a period of formal consultation Digital Story: My smoke free family
How we approached writing our strategy • Step 7: We consulted on the draft strategy and action plans in a more targeted way, using focus groups etc • Step 8: We took the consultation report and amended strategy back to the NHS Board in Feb 12 and it was endorsed for implementation
How we approached writing our strategy • Next steps: • Multi-agency Tobacco Strategy Implementation Group • Actions and monitoring via covalent – performance management system • Working with North, South and East CHPs • Leadership group continues, working with Health Scotland
How we approached writing our strategy • Next steps: • Poster at Public Health Conference • Presentation at national Smoking Cessation Conference • Benchmarking against National Strategy and altering our action plan if required
Lessons learned from writing our strategy • It takes longer than you think • The tendency is to be over ambitious • Engagement and consultation are vital to producing a document which is owned by partners and the public • The process has been useful in raising the profile of smoking and smoking related issues • We have created a template for the development of other strategies
Contact details elaine.young@nhs.net 01292 885914