The Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA), acting on behalf of the Local Government Association Group and the Department of Health (DH), wishes to appoint a suitably qualified, skilled and experienced consultant(s) to develop a guidance document specifically tailored to local authorities.

In this context, the DH funded an overarching national programme on Reducing Health Inequalities through Tobacco Control (RHITC), involving 25 authorities, who each received funding £100,000 p.a. for  the period  2008-2010, to exercise community leadership and take forward innovative tobacco control initiatives.

Smoking is by far the greatest cause of preventable deaths and contributes most to the gap in health inequalities. Local government has a crucial role to play in tobacco control and should be on the agenda of every council seeking to improve the health and wellbeing of local communities.

The programme is coordinated and managed by the IDeA, whose leading role includes the implementation of innovative knowledge-sharing initiatives to spread good practice in the wider local government community.

The RHITC programme aims to produce a guidance document for local councils on how to effectively target routine and manual workers to help them deliver more effectively in this high priority area. The guidance is envisaged to enable local councils to be more effective in their targeting and influencing work and in their efforts to ensure that routine and manual workers not only attempt to quit but ’stay quit’. The guidance will also highlight best practice on targeting routine and manual workers who smoke, to influence them to quit smoking.

The work must be completed mid June 2010.

Deadline for submission is Friday 26^th February 2010.

http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=5349575 (call this link “weblink - tobacco cessation tender opportunity”

To request the tender specification document or for more information contact us on tobacco@idea.gov.uk or phone 020 7296 6711. 

Have your say

You must sign in to make a comment.