To approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 26 June 2018.

Decision

To approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 26 June 2018.

Report of the Director of Population Health and Wellbeing

The enclosed report provides the Task and Finish Group with an overview of the key strategies and plans that relate to work on tobacco, alcohol and healthy living (physical activity) in Manchester and Greater Manchester.

At the meeting of the Task and Finish Group, colleagues from the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, Public Health England, Cancer Research UK and the University of Manchester will provide an objective assessment of what Manchester is currently doing and what we can learn from best practice elsewhere.

The Task and Finish Group considered a report of the Director of Population Health and Wellbeing, which provided an overview of the key strategies and plans that related to work on tobacco, alcohol and healthy living (physical activity) in Manchester and Greater Manchester.

The Group agreed to consider the report in three distinct sections – tobacco control, alcohol related harm and improving physical activity.

The Director of Population Health and Wellbeing referred to the main points and themes within the report relating to tobacco control, which included:-

·                There were estimated to be just under 91,500 smokers aged 18 and over in Manchester. This was equivalent to 21.7% of the population compared with the England average of 15.5%;

·                Smoking prevalence in Manchester had been falling for a number of years but the rate of reduction was much slower than in other parts of the country;

·                There were around 5,999 smoking related hospital admissions per year costing approximately £5.4 million per year to the NHS in Manchester;

·                Manchester had the highest rates of smoking attributable deaths in England, costing approximately £13.5 million per year to the NHS in Manchester;

·                Lost productivity caused by smoking related illness, disability or death was estimated to cost the city approximately £106.2 million per year;

·                The additional smoking related social care costs of current or former smokers were estimated to be approximately £11.6 million per year;

·                Although cigarettes bought through legal channels raised money for the exchequer, the costs attributed to tobacco were one and a half times as much as the duty raised, resulting in a net cost to Manchester of about £47.6 million per year; and

·                The key areas of work being undertaken to try to reduce and prevent early deaths caused by smoking, which included but was not limited to:-

·                The launch of the Smoke Free Manchester Tobacco Control Plan as part of ‘Stoptober’, the annual national campaign to encourage people to quit smoking;

·                A range of options that were being considered  to ensure Manchester had a robust specialist smoking cessation service; and

·                The implementation of the CURE pilot at Wythenshawe Hospital in treating inpatient smoking addiction; and

·                The roll out of the GM Baby Clear Programme to tackle smoking in pregnancy.

The Group then listened to the views of colleagues from Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, Public Health England, Cancer Research UK and the University of Manchester,who provided objective assessments of what Manchester was currently doing and what could be learnt from best practice elsewhere.

In doing so it was reported that both Cancer Research UK and Public Health England had expressed concern that Manchester did not have a Stop Smoking Service.  It was also reported that that NICE had issued guidelines on what they recommended a Stop Smoking service should entail (NG92) and that these agencies had supported the use of e-cigarettes as a viable method of quitting smoking.  The Group was also made aware of a pilot  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.

Report of the Governance and Scrutiny Support Unit

Members are invited to review and approve the terms of reference and work programme.

The Task and Finish Group were invited to consider and agree its work programme and terms of reference.

Decision

The Group:-

(1)       agrees the Work Programme, subject to the inclusion of the excerpt on alcohol related harm from the above report on Tobacco, Alcohol and Healthy Living (Physical Activity) being added to the work programme for the next meeting; and

(2)       agrees that the Chair will canvass Members’ availability with a view to arrangingthe next meeting within the next four to five weeks.