All training is now online but your Public Health Practitioners can support you with any issues or questions.
The Turas course is currently under review and so there is only 1 current option available for undertaking training in smoking cessation.
The Public Health Scotland smoking cessation course is an 8–10-hour course with an assessment at the end. You will need to create an account to access an enrolment key. It's a fantastic, thorough course with lots of short role-play videos which we have documented into a library for ease of revision.
Course: Stop smoking suite - landing page (publichealthscotland.scot)
Public Health Scotland video library - click here
All staff should be assessed by the lead Pharmacist to ensure they are skilled and knowledgeable enough to see clients.
Feel free to contact the Public Health Practitioners with any queries or issues, details as below.
Please see below recording of Pharmacy Smoking Cessation Training session 8th of June 2021. Although a few years old now, this is still a good refresher for all staff.
All the Public Health Core services are available on Community Pharmacy Scotland web page at the link below. Just highlight the smoking section to read more about payments and find a short PCR video.
Public Health Service — Community Pharmacy Scotland (cps.scot)
The NHS Grampian Pharmacy Stop Smoking Service Pack was developed as a staff training resource. All pharmacies should have received this pack. If you have not received one you can click the link below and print it off directly to keep in your pharmacy or store electronically. The pack contains all the key information about the service in a condensed, simple format. It outlines the full service, the product guidelines, hints/tips to provide behavioural support and how to complete submissions correctly on PCR to receive payments.
LINK TO PACKAGE HERE (updated June 2023)
Overview | Tobacco: preventing uptake, promoting quitting and treating dependence | Guidance | NICE
Only Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians can receive PCR logins. To enable other pharmacy staff members to participate in the completion of PCR, click here for a paper-copy of the smoking cessation support tool that you can print out and use to complete initial data capture and ongoing contacts with patient.
There are a wide range of tobacco resources available to help your pharmacy provide information to patients and raise awareness on stopping smoking. Click here to be redirected to the Health Information Resources Service where it is free to sign-up and order resources relevant to you in your community.
See some common Q&A's
Q&A for Pharmacies 2023 UPDATED- June 2023
Your Public Health Practitioners are on hand to help you with anything related to the core NHS public health services, whether it be a smoking query, a PCR issue or a missed payment:
Suzanne Cowie (covers Aberdeen City and Aberdeeshire South) suzanne.cowie@nhs.scot
Denise Stirling (covers Moray and Aberdeenshire North) denise.stirling@nhs.scot
You can read more about the new bill which will take a 4-Nation approach here - Creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping: what you need to know – Department of Health and Social Care Media Centre (blog.gov.uk)
Sign up to Scotland’s Charter to support a smoke free generation by 2034!
Scotland has a goal of creating a tobacco-free generation by 2034, meaning by 2034 less than 5% of adults will smoke.
To find out more and sign the Charter, click the link below…
Scotland's Charter for a Tobacco-free Generation | ASH Scotland