No Smoking Day backed by Yeovil Hospital

YEOVIL District Hospital will mark national No Smoking Day tomorrow (Wednesday, March 13) by launching a new smoke free site initiative.

The hospital is now highlighting its smoking ban by installing a range of eye-catching signs around the campus making it very clear that the hospital and its grounds are a no-smoking site.

Staff, patients and the public are asked not to smoke on site or anywhere in the grounds including outside the front entrance.

The hospital's director of nursing and clinical governance, Helen Ryan, said: “We appreciate that it may be very difficult for some people to give up and want to do everything we can to help and are working in partnership with our public health colleagues.”

The hospital will be having a Stop Smoking stall in its main reception area between 9am and 5pm where advice will be given to patients and staff.

Information and the contact details of the Somerset NHS Stop Smoking Service are readily available to members of staff, the public and for all patients at YDH and via GP surgeries and community health centres prior to admission.

Patients will be advised at their pre-operative assessment about the smoke free policy and referred to support via their GP who can provide a prescription for nicotine replacement therapy prior to admission.

Somerset NHS Stop Smoking Service runs clinics in Yeovil District Hospital’s Outpatients Department on a Monday with a drop-in session between 11.30am and 12.30 pm and bookable half hour appointments between 9am -11.30am. Call 0303 033 9840 to book or text MYQUIT and your name to 80010.

For more information about how to give up go to http://www.wequit.co.uk/ .

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