The NHS Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT) is funded by the Department of Health to:
- Help the stop smoking services in England to provide high quality stop smoking support based on the most up-to-date evidence available
- Contribute to the professional identity of stop smoking practitioners and ensure that they receive due recognition for their role
- Research and disseminate ways of improving the provision of stop smoking support
Competences / NCSCT Training Standard
The NCSCT has identified the competences (knowledge and skills) necessary to deliver evidence-based behaviour change techniques to smokers and these have provided the evidence for the ‘NCSCT Training Standard – Learning Outcomes for Training Stop Smoking Practitioners’ which became the benchmark of quality training for stop smoking service personnel in April 2010.
These knowledge and skills competences have been incorporated into the NCSCT online and face-to-face training resources, and are embedded within the ‘NCSCT Standard Treatment Programme’
NCSCT Training and Assessment Programme
The NCSCT Training Programme has the following core elements:
What's new?
- Latest local tobacco control profiles for England 25 January 2012 The latest version of the local tobacco control profiles was published on 24 January 2012 by the London Health Observatory on behalf of the Public Health Observatories in England. Read more...
- Smoking prevalence recognised in Public Health Outcomes Framework 23 January 2012 The Government has published the 2013-2016 Public Health Outcomes Framework. Read more...