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- Title:
- Supporting a Smokefree Pregnancy and Smokefree Families (SCP)
- Description:
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This e-learning programme focuses on the delivery of very brief advice (VBA) on smoking to pregnant women or those who have recently given birth, including carbon monoxide monitoring. There are specific films and power point resources for both midwives and health visitors, but all are relevant across the whole midwifery and early years team.
NICE guidance recommends that all women are offered CO testing at antenatal appointments, with those having elevated levels referred for specialist support to stop smoking. Health visitors should also be supporting women and families to be smokefree, during, after and before future pregnancy.
Smoking during pregnancy is the largest modifiable risk factor for a range of adverse pregnancy outcomes and VBA is a proven intervention that has the potential to improve the health, and even save the life, of both mother and baby. Exposure to secondhand smoke is also a risks to the health of women, foetus and new born baby.
Although rates have been declining, there are still more than 60,000 babies born each year in England to mothers who have smoked during pregnancy.
All staff coming into contact with pregnant women, new mothers and their families have a role to play in triggering quit attempts and delivering very brief advice on smoking.
These resources are aimed at helping members of midwifery, health visiting and early years teams to deliver very brief advice (VBA) on smoking to their patients.
Consisting of an on-line training programme, some short films demonstrating the intervention in practice and two sets of powerpoint slides providing detailed background and references, this suite of resource should be used as an introduction to delivering advice on smoking, as a refresher for more experienced practitioners or to supplement local face to face training.
- Created:
- 18 Jul 2018
- Last Major Update:
- 26 Jun 2019
- Keywords:
- 515-0001, smoking, VBA, very brief advice, pregnancy, pregnant, secondhand smoke, relapse to smoking, partner smoking, new birth visit, stop smoking support, smokefree, smokefree family, smokefree pregnancy, maternity, midwives, midwifery, maternity support worker, MSW, neonatal
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- Title:
- Supporting a Smokefree Pregnancy and Smokefree Families (SCP)
- Description:
-
This e-learning programme focuses on the delivery of very brief advice (VBA) on smoking to pregnant women or those who have recently given birth, including carbon monoxide monitoring. There are specific films and power point resources for both midwives and health visitors, but all are relevant across the whole midwifery and early years team.
NICE guidance recommends that all women are offered CO testing at antenatal appointments, with those having elevated levels referred for specialist support to stop smoking. Health visitors should also be supporting women and families to be smokefree, during, after and before future pregnancy.
Smoking during pregnancy is the largest modifiable risk factor for a range of adverse pregnancy outcomes and VBA is a proven intervention that has the potential to improve the health, and even save the life, of both mother and baby. Exposure to secondhand smoke is also a risks to the health of women, foetus and new born baby.
Although rates have been declining, there are still more than 60,000 babies born each year in England to mothers who have smoked during pregnancy.
All staff coming into contact with pregnant women, new mothers and their families have a role to play in triggering quit attempts and delivering very brief advice on smoking.
These resources are aimed at helping members of midwifery, health visiting and early years teams to deliver very brief advice (VBA) on smoking to their patients.
Consisting of an on-line training programme, some short films demonstrating the intervention in practice and two sets of powerpoint slides providing detailed background and references, this suite of resource should be used as an introduction to delivering advice on smoking, as a refresher for more experienced practitioners or to supplement local face to face training.
- Created:
- 18 Jul 2018
- Last Major Update:
- 26 Jun 2019
- Keywords:
- 515-0001, smoking, VBA, very brief advice, pregnancy, pregnant, secondhand smoke, relapse to smoking, partner smoking, new birth visit, stop smoking support, smokefree, smokefree family, smokefree pregnancy, maternity, midwives, midwifery, maternity support worker, MSW, neonatal