Stop Smoking Services Collection question and answer session guidance
Guidance to help users to complete the Stop Smoking Services data collection quarterly submissions following a question and answer session. This data collection focuses on people accessing Stop Smoking Services to help with reducing the prevalence of smoking in England and health inequality caused by smoking.
Background
Smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death and disease in England and is one of the most significant factors that impacts upon health inequalities and ill health, particularly cancer, coronary heart disease and respiratory disease.
Treating smoking-related illness is estimated to cost the NHS £2.7bn a year, with the wider economic costs reaching over £13bn once factors such as lost productivity, tobacco litter and smoking-related house fires are considered. Reducing smoking prevalence therefore remains a key local public health priority and a national focus.
- The spreadsheet can be named for your own records. This won't affect how the submission template is submitted.
- SDCS will send you a deadline reminder 2 working days before the submission deadline.
- You will not be able to update a submission once the submission window has closed unless its by exception.
- You will need to download a new submission template each quarter. Although the template will appear the same to submitters, there will be background changes each quarter requiring a new template download.
- The revised submission template now also shows any errors which may appear in the K column to help you make any amendments to the template before you submit it.
- Submissions will be data quality checked at the point of submission. If your submission fails one of these checks, you will be required to enter a breach reason. A hyperlink will be shown which you can click for details about the breach and enter your comments.
- The submission is non mandated.
- Further guidance is available within the template downloaded from SDCS.
- The national team use the finance data (in conjunction with the Local Government Association Public Health returns) to carry out ad-hoc analysis of the cost-effectiveness of stop smoking services.
- The data is used to understand which regions are investing the most into stop smoking services and is also mapped against other data, such as smoking prevalence to help target further investment into stop smoking services and tobacco control.
- Local commissioners are asked to calculate the proportion of the overall integrated service budget to spend on smoking.
Further information
The Strategic Data Collection Service (SDCS) is a secure data collection system used by health and social care organisations to submit data to NHS England.
Last edited: 30 August 2022 5:23 pm