Health Outcomes Performance Management: Welcome

16. Increased availability of, referrals to, demand for and uptake of smoking cessation services

Indicator	Population	Level	Source	Item
Investment in Smoking cessation Services	Smokers primarily in target groups (deprived groups, young people, pregnant women)	Scotland	SG	Allocation letters to health boards and corresponding figures of funds allocated.
No. smoking cessation services provided	Smokers	Scotland	ISD Scotland smoking cessation database	Number of smoking cessation services are recorded in the Scotland Minimum Dataset. Current data has fields for type of intervention (group, one to one, pharmacy, buddy etc).
Number of calls to telephone helpline
% of smokers who have used Smoking cessation Service	Service users (former, current and relapsed smokers)		ISD Scotland smoking cessation database	Number of smokers who have used smoking cessation service (intensive support) can be expressed as rates in terms of proportions of smokers using Scottish Household Survey statistics on smoking rates.
% of referrals to smoking cessation Services	Smokers		Health boards	Item may be very difficult to ascertain. Data may be available from each stop smoking adviser or could be collated by the NHS Board Smoking Cessation Co-ordinator
Uptake of smoking cessation services	Smokers	Scotland; Regional	ISD Scotland Database	Scotland monitoring; number of quit dates being set.
No. young people using smoking cessation services	Young smokers	Scotland; Regional	ISD Scotland Database	ISD database records age, published (Scotland) breakdown for < 16, 16-17 and 18-24.