Stop Smoking Services Collection
The Stop Smoking Services Quarterly Return is a Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) central return used to monitor the delivery of Stop Smoking Services (prior to 1 April 2013 this was a Department of Health (DH) return).
Frequency: quarterly
Background to the collection
The Stop Smoking Services Quarterly Return is a Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) central return used to monitor the delivery of Stop Smoking Services (prior to 1 April 2013 this was a Department of Health (DH) return).
The return is collected from Local Authorities (LAs) by NHS England. The stop smoking collection is implemented via the Strategic Data Collection System (SDCS).
The return is made in an Excel spreadsheet which is downloaded from the system in each reporting quarter.
The submission spreadsheet contains one tab to collect the data for the submission quarter. A new spreadsheet should be downloaded and populated for each quarter.
Launch and submission dates
| Reporting period | Submission start date | Submission end date |
|---|---|---|
| Quarter 1 2025/26 | 13 August 2025 | 9 September 2025 |
| Quarter 2 2025/26 | 26 November 2025 | 6 January 2026 |
| Quarter 3 2025/26 | 18 February 2026 | 17 March 2026 |
| Quarter 1 2025/26 resubmissions | 25 March 2026 | 31 March 2026 |
| Quarter 2 2025/26 resubmissions | 8 April 2026 | 14 April 2026 |
| Quarter 3 2025/26 resubmissions | 22 April 2026 | 28 April 2026 |
| Quarter 4 2025/26 | 13 May 2026 | 9 June 2026 |
These are provisional dates only and are subject to change.
Last edited: 2 May 2025 4:32 pm