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LOCAL GOVERNMENT DECLARATION ON TOBACCO CONTROL & NHS STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR TOBACCO CONTROL

Meeting: 11/03/2015 - Health & Wellbeing Board (Item 7)

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To consider a report of the Director of Public Health.

 

The report provides the Board with information on the Local Government Declaration and NHS Statement of Support for Tobacco Control and recommends their adoption by Stockport Council, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and NHS Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group.

 

The Board is recommended to:

 

·         endorse the adoption of the Local Government Declaration on Tobacco Control.

·         invite NHS Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group and Stockport NHS Foundation trust adopt the NHS Statement of Support  on Tobacco Control.

·         note the formation of a Stockport Tobacco Alliance to implement the commitments made as result of signing the Local Government Declaration on Tobacco Control.

 

Officer contact: Mary Brooks, 161 474 2455, mary.brooks@stockport.gov.uk

 

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Deputy Director of Public Health submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) updating the Board on the recent adoption by the Council of the Local Government Declaration on Tobacco Control and the recent launch of the NHS Statement of Support for Tobacco Control, attended by the Chair. The review of local tobacco control arrangements undertaken by CleAR in 2014 had recommended the signing of the Local Government Declaration by the Council. This, along with the re-establishment of the local Tobacco Alliance, had now been implemented.

 

RESOLVED – That the Board

 

(i)        welcomes the adoption by Stockport Council of the Local Government Declaration on Tobacco Control;

(ii)       encourages the Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group and Stockport NHS Foundation Trust to adopt the NHS Statement of Support on Tobacco Control; and

(iii)      notes the formation of a Stockport Tobacco Alliance to support implement the commitments made as a result of the signing of the Declaration and Statement.