United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 78857
Smoking
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22 July 2020
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1 September 2020 · Answer
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1 September 2020
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that GPs encourage patients who refuse to give up smoking to instead use less damaging alternatives to cigarettes.
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22 July 2020
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that GPs encourage patients who refuse to give up smoking to instead use less damaging alternatives to cigarettes.
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1 September 2020
Answer
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance, ‘Stop smoking interventions and services’, describes best practice, and, general practitioners are expected to take the guidance fully into account. The guidance recommends that for patients ...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-07-22/78857
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1227661
- uk · wq-1227661 · source updated 1 September 2020