Healthy living centres could be used as a focal point for the local service. Counsellors could come from a range of health professional backgrounds. 4.28 A number of tools are available to NHS planners and health professionals to help them in setting up and delivering local smoking cessation services. In conjunction with the University of York, the HEA has also developed a resource which sets out the issues and costs involved in developing specialist cessation services 48 . The Addiction Resource Centre at the Bethlehem and Maudsley NHS Trust runs a specialist smoking cessation clinic.
Smokers can refer themselves or be referred by a doctor.
They are also given nicotine replacement therapy at a reduced cost. The team at the Maudsley not only help people to give up smoking but also train professionals, like GPs and practice nurses, to help people quit. In Northern Ireland, services will be provided within the overall funding for health. In Wales, funding is subject to the outcome of the Comprehensive Spending Review in Wales . Consultation letter MLX 248 has been issued to over 140 interested organisations to seek their views on the proposal.