NHS Fife Pharmacy 30:Layout 1 - Community Pharmacy
NHS Fife Pharmacy 30:Layout 1 - Community Pharmacy
NHS Fife Pharmacy 30:Layout 1 - Community Pharmacy
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No Butts! –<br />
John’s the Winner<br />
One lucky winner has been<br />
chosen from the recent<br />
competition to name the new <strong>Fife</strong><br />
<strong>Pharmacy</strong> Smoking Cessation<br />
Service. The competition<br />
attracted a good number of<br />
entries from <strong>Pharmacy</strong> staff<br />
throughout <strong>Fife</strong>.<br />
The panel of judges from <strong>Fife</strong>’s<br />
Smoking Cessation Service and<br />
<strong>Fife</strong> <strong>Pharmacy</strong> decided that “No<br />
Butts – Ask your Pharmacist!”<br />
was the most appropriate name for the service.<br />
Many suggestions were received and in the end the winner, John<br />
Thompson, <strong>Pharmacy</strong> Manager from Lindsay and Gilmour<br />
<strong>Pharmacy</strong> in Inverkeithing was chosen for his creative and<br />
informative entry. John received a voucher for a meal for two for<br />
his efforts.<br />
To explain the reasoning behind the name, John said, “I put lots<br />
of thought into my entry and tried to use some psychology too!<br />
Stopping smoking can be really difficult so hopefully, our service<br />
will help people to be less afraid to ask their local pharmacy for<br />
help and advice to stop smoking.”<br />
Combination NRT –<br />
The Benefits<br />
Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) medications are well known<br />
to provide effective treatment for tobacco dependence.<br />
However, there is now strengthening evidence which<br />
demonstrates that to further improve the value of NRT it is<br />
possible to combine one medication providing passive nicotine<br />
delivery (e.g. transdermal patch) with another medication that<br />
allows nicotine delivery at the patient’s discretion (e.g. gum,<br />
inhaler).<br />
Combining NRT medications not only fulfills the smoker’s<br />
requirement for an effective, slow delivery method which helps<br />
achieve a constant concentration of nicotine, but also reacts to<br />
breakthrough cravings and withdrawal symptoms by providing a<br />
fast acting preparation which can be taken on demand for<br />
immediate relief.<br />
Combination NRT therefore, has huge potential to provide<br />
effective treatment for tobacco dependence in difficult to<br />
manage patients.<br />
And a New Logo too!<br />
In addition to our<br />
new name, “No Butts<br />
– Ask your<br />
Pharmacist!” We also<br />
have a new logo for<br />
our service. Look out<br />
for it in the coming<br />
months to help<br />
highlight the<br />
<strong>Pharmacy</strong> service.<br />
<strong>Fife</strong> Tobacco Issues Conference<br />
Pittencreiff Park in Dunfermline was the venue for <strong>Fife</strong>’s Tobacco Issues<br />
Conference on 27 May 2009. Promoting Excellence through Alliance was the<br />
theme where various organisations with an interest in reducing tobacco use<br />
came together. This year’s conference was held in an attempt to influence the<br />
development of local activities involving parents, schools and the local<br />
community in education programmes for young people, promotion of smoke<br />
free homes, reducing under age tobacco sales and further developing stop<br />
smoking support.<br />
Dr Mike Roworth, Public Health Consultant, <strong>NHS</strong> <strong>Fife</strong> opened the conference<br />
which began with an<br />
informative look at the national<br />
picture from Mary Cuthbert,<br />
Tobacco Control Division –<br />
Scottish Government. Smoking<br />
Cessation Support within<br />
Scottish workplaces was<br />
presented by Nina Torbett from<br />
the Centre for Healthy Working<br />
Lives, and Heather Sloan from<br />
the Renfrewshire CHP Health<br />
Improvement Team gave an<br />
insightful presentation on<br />
methods and approaches to<br />
encourage engagement.<br />
Pupils from Kirkland High School at the <strong>Fife</strong> <strong>Pharmacy</strong><br />
stand attending the conference<br />
The conference also included information on local enforcement issues, given<br />
by Geoff Bates, <strong>Fife</strong> Council Trading Standards as well as an overview of<br />
Alliance Working from Janet Wilson, the Local Alliance Officer from ASH<br />
Scotland.<br />
Workshop sessions took place during the event; Smoke Free Homes and Zones<br />
led by Kay Samson, Tobacco Issues Co-ordinator and Julie Lennox from FMR<br />
Research, as well as Current Local Provision: Successes and Challenges, led by<br />
Mike Roworth, Andrea Smith, Development Pharmacist and the Quit 4 Life<br />
<strong>Community</strong> Midwives. Prevention and Young People, led by Emma Cepok<br />
and Brian Pringle from ASH Scotland, Engagement; the 3Rs (Reach,<br />
Recruitment, Retention) with Belinda Morgan from Board's PFPI Team and,<br />
Stop Smoking in the Workplace led by Nina Torbett from the Centre for<br />
Healthy Working Lives, supported by Katie Provan.<br />
Delegates came together from a diverse list of organisations including; <strong>NHS</strong><br />
<strong>Fife</strong>, <strong>Fife</strong> Council, Richmond<br />
Fellowship, Kirkland High School,<br />
Coal Industry Social Welfare<br />
Organisation and CVS <strong>Fife</strong>.<br />
The Speakers at the conference: Mary Cuthbert (Tobacco<br />
Control Division – Scottish Government), Nina Torbett<br />
(Centre for Healthy Working Lives), Heather Sloan<br />
(Renfrewshire CHP Health Improvement Team), Janet Wilson<br />
(ASH Scotland), Dr Mike Roworth (Public Health Consultant,<br />
<strong>NHS</strong> <strong>Fife</strong>), Geoff Bates (<strong>Fife</strong> Council Trading Standards) and<br />
Kay Samson (Tobacco Issues Co-ordinator, <strong>NHS</strong> <strong>Fife</strong>)<br />
Throughout the day, poster<br />
presentations were on display<br />
highlighting valuable<br />
information and the various<br />
services (including <strong>Fife</strong><br />
<strong>Pharmacy</strong>) dedicated to<br />
providing stop smoking<br />
support. Feedback from the<br />
conference has been very<br />
positive.<br />
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