HSE Health and Wellbeing
Mentorship is an important part of the development of skills within health service staff and contributes directly to maintaining and elevating Quality Assurance standards and ultimately improving client outcomes. Over the past 12 months, the HSE Tobacco Free Ireland programme has been collaborating with the Leadership, Learning and Talent Management service (LLTM) to develop mentorship […]
Financial incentives to stop smoking (FISS) programs have been implemented internationally to encourage people who smoke to quit smoking. A Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis of existing published evidence suggests that financial incentives are 50% more likely to lead to smoking cessation than other types of support. The HSE Tobacco Free Ireland Programme is working […]
The implementation of financial incentives in stop smoking services is now becoming mainstreamed in some countries. It is therefore timely that, the Tobacco Free Ireland Programme will be working with the RSCI and the local stop smoking services to implement a Health Research Board pilot programme that will provide financial incentives to help people stop […]