National Referral System The National Referral System has now trained more than 3,000 staff and processed over 25,000 referrals to the local stop smoking services across England.  The National Referral System is now led by North 51 with the NCSCT continuing to provide the VBA training modules and clinical consultancy Already offering the most effective way of referring hospital patients into local stop smoking support, it is now being developed to include Lifestyle Services. This will allow referrals to be made in both primary and secondary care for:
Feedback following implementation of the system from frontline staff has been overwhelmingly positive: "The fact that patients are being identified, and able to be referred online, is a better process than we were doing previously." (Senior staff nurse) "It (the training) was very easy to access, it worked as it said it was going to, it was as short as it said it was going to be....so we were able to go around everybody in our department and say come on guys you can do this." (Nurse specialist) For further information about the system including costs please email Ian Baker or contact him on 0115 9124259.  This summary document provides an overview of the system To read the 2013 Secondary Care Survey report click hereBack to previous page | ||||||
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