Question follow-through · 31694

Patients: Smoking

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on providing smoking cessation support to patients who are in hospital receiving care for cardiovascular disease.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 13 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 25 Feb 2025
Answer: 25 Feb 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

13 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on providing smoking cessation support to patients who are in hospital receiving care for cardiovascular disease.
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Feb 2025
Answer published
As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England has prioritised, and given new funding to integrated care boards (ICBs) for, the rollout of tobacco dependence services in hospital settings. Decisions on the scale and makeup of the services are agreed local...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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