Wed 30 Sept 10.30 am – 11.30 am
Microsoft Teams
The meeting will consider the impending Public Health (Wales) Act, due to come into force in 2021. The new regulations will ban smoking on hospital grounds, on school grounds and local authority playgrounds. During the meeting stakeholders and partners will discuss how best to maximise the benefits of these regulations.
Please email enquiries@ashwales.org.uk for more details and login information.
Speakers
Smokefree Partnership
Based in Belgium, the mission of the Smokefree Partnership is the effective implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
Claire Clement, Policy Officer will:
· Present the European smokefree policy map and explain where Wales sits in the world of tobacco control including the rate of change
· Explore some of the emerging trends in tobacco control
· Outline the different ways in which these policies are adopted
· Recommendations surrounding the key elements of the adoption of smokefree policies.
Dr Esteve Feranandez, Director of Tobacco Control Unit of the Catalan Institute of Oncology and Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the School of Medicine of the University of Barcelona.
Spanish Tobacco Control law includes bans on smoking in hospital grounds, school grounds, children’s playgrounds and more recently a ban on outdoor terraces and public places.
Dr Fernandez will:
· Provide an overview of smokefree hospitals
· Pitfalls to avoid, ie poor enforcement procedures
· Indicators of success and reward programmes
· Recommendations for the successful adoption of smokefree policies
Andrea Crossfield MBE, Independent Public Health Consultant, Greater Manchester Health & Social Care Partnership
Andrea is leading the mobilisation of the Making Smoking History Strategy in Greater Manchester alongside partners across the city region to reduce smoking prevalence further and faster than anywhere else in the UK and globally, over the next 3 years.
Andrea will:
· Present of summary of where they’ve reached in their ambition
· Share outcomes of the programme so far
· How the Data Toolkit is used to measure progress and shape future policy
· What lessons have been learned
