Smoking

This spreadsheet is a report of the SLM "Better help for smokers to quit" indicator. Depending on when it is run it is either a final report or a progress report. It includes details by practice. View Sample Report (pdf 751kb) See here for more information about this indicator. A description of each sheet follows.

Summary

This shown through a variety of figures each detailed below:

  • Patients Aged 15-75 - Total number of patients aged 15 to 17 on the last day of the quarter that are enrolled in NES in your PHO - this is the age group that the indicator relates to.
  • Smoking Status Ever Recorded - Total number of patients enrolled in NES in your PHO who have their smoking status recorded
  • Current Smokers - Total number of patients enrolled in NES in your PHO whose most recent smoking status is as a smoker
  • Current Smokers or Recent Quit - Total number of patients enrolled in NES in your PHO who are marked as Current Smokers or Recently Quit. Recently Quit includes all patients who have been current smokers in the last 15 months. This forms our denominator for Brief Advice.
  • Brief Advice - Total number of patients enrolled in NES in your PHO who are marked as Current Smokers or Recently Quit who have been given Brief Advice
  • Cessation Support - Total number of patients enrolled in NES in your PHO who are marked as Current Smokers or Recently Quit who have been given Cessation Support
  • Smoking Status Ever Recorded % - The percentage of relevant patients enrolled in your PHO who have their smoking status recorded
  • Brief Advice % - The percentage of the total number of patients enrolled in NES in your PHO who are marked as Current Smokers or Recently Quit who have been given Brief Advice
  • Number need to do meet MoH - This is the number of qualified patients who require Brief Advice to hit the MoH target of 90%

By practice

The summary by practice sheet has exactly the same information but is broken down by practice.

This enables the PHO to quickly and easily see which practices have reached the target.

Ethnicity Breakdown

The sheet has 4 tables each detailed below:

The first two tables show a breakdown of the below information. One table does this by Ethnicity and the other one by High Needs or Not:

  • Patients Aged 15-75 currently registered and funded in NES at the practice
  • Smoking Status Ever Recorded
  • Current Smokers
  • Current Smokers or Recently Quit
  • Brief Advice Given
  • Smoking Status Ever Recorded Percentage
  • Brief Advice Percentage
  • Number to do to meet the MoH Target
  • Cessation Support
  • Cessation Support Percentage

The second two tables show a breakdown of the below Cessation Support information. One table does this by Ethnicity and the other one by High Needs or Not:

  • ZPSC10 - Referral to smoking cessation support
  • ZPSC20 - Prescribed smoking cessation medication
  • ZPS30 - Provided smoking cessation behaviour support
  • ZPSC90 - Refused smoking cessation support

DHB Reports

These tables are here to enable the relevant PHOs to complete some specific DHB reports.