HSE Health and Wellbeing
Three new HSE easy read booklets are now available to support people with intellectual disabilities and people with low literacy who want to quit smoking. Developed by the HSE Tobacco Free Ireland Programme in partnership with the HSE National Disability Team, the booklets use clear language, supportive images and a step‑by‑step approach to make information […]
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 […]
The HSE Tobacco Free Ireland (TFI) programme has a long-standing programme of work and engagement with the Irish Prison Service. The TFI Programme commenced engagement with the governor of Mountjoy Prison back in 2019 when they first started to support the development of smoke-free wings in the prison and developed stop-smoking support for both inmates […]
Each year in Ireland, over 4,500 people die due to smoking. Each week in our hospitals, almost 1,000 admissions are smoking-related.1 These numbers are stark and are a reminder that Ireland is still deep in an epidemic of smoking-related harm. Approximately, 1-in-5 (18%) adults currently smoke with men being more likely to smoke than women, […]
Healthy Fingal, HSE Health and Wellbeing, Balbriggan Tidy Towns, and Balbriggan Basketball Club organised a beach clean-up on Saturday 27th July. Taking advantage of the good weather a beach clean-up was organised to focus on removing cigarette butts and vapes from Balbriggan beach. The clean-up demonstrated great collaboration within the community with young people from […]
Tobacco use is still the leading cause of preventable death in Ireland causing almost 100 deaths each week and results in significant costs to the health service in treating illness caused by tobacco. In 2023, the HSE Stop Smoking Services engaged with over 19,000 people who wanted support to quit smoking. It follows significant investment […]
Through the staff HSE Health & Health wellbeing budget we are delighted that from January 1st 2020 the staff health and wellbeing initiative has now secured funding for staff to access free stop smoking medications (i.e. a free GP visit and a prescription for a drug called Varenicline (Champix) and or combination nicotine replacement therapy). […]