Hospital Patients Should Be Offered Nicotine Gum

Hospital patients who smoke should be given nicotine patches or gum as soon as they are admitted, health officials have said.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) said hospitals have a duty of care to help people quit the habit.

In its new draft recommendations, Nice also called on all hospitals to implement smoke-free policies in their grounds.

In some trusts around the country, patients can be seen outside buildings wearing hospital gowns while smoking - meanwhile other hospitals have zero tolerance policy.

In the new guidance, which is now open for consultation, Nice says that such a policy should be implemented across England.

It is also calling on trusts to give all patients information about their smoke-free rules and support to help smokers kick the habit.

Professor Mike Kelly, director of Nice's Centre for Public Health, said: "The benefits of stopping smoking are well known, and people are already required by law not to smoke inside enclosed or mostly enclosed buildings.

"This draft guidance sets out proposals on supporting people in a hospital environment not to smoke, as well as supporting the smoke-free policies in hospitals.

"Secondary care providers have a responsibility to protect the health of people who use or work in their services.

"The draft recommendations propose that this duty of care should also routinely cover providing advice on how to improve health, including stop smoking interventions."

Treating smoking-related illness costs the NHS £2.7bn every year.

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