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	Next ENSH General Assembly Meeting (15th October in Barcelona) Date: Friday 15th October, 08:30 am. to 18:00 pm ENSH Indicators- Workshop Date: Saturday 16th October, 9:30 am to 12:30 pm   Venue: Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain   Please click here to see the Agenda Attendance sheet   Three hospitals nominated to the Gold Level Award   The international Jury of the ENSH-Global Network for Tobacco Free Health Care Services announced that three hospitals have achieved Nomination in the 2010 ENSH Gold Level Award process.   They are the Centre Hospitalari, Althaia (Catalonia, Spain), St. Vincent’s University Hospital (Ireland) and Salus Clinic Lindow (Germany).     18th HPH Conference Manchester 14th April 2010   Pre-conference on Tobacco Free Health Services (Tobacco free United) Tobacco Prevention - in Health Services Does it play a role in addressing health inequalities? Click to see the programme of the pre conference Invited speaker Prof. Luke Clancy, President, European Network for Smoking Prevention (ENSP)      ----------------------- Last ENSH Assembly The last ENSH Assembly was hold on Friday, 23rd of October in Barcelona, at the Residence of Researches. Click here to download the main conclusions   For more information contact the new coordination center (E-mail: ensh@iconcologia.net. Phone: 00 34 230 73 57)    --------------------------  Tobacco Free United ( TFU). A new HPH Taskforce has been initiated between the HPH and ENSH networks. We are now inviting network partners and interest hospitals to join the taskforce and identify the area that they are most interested in participating. More ...

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ENSH Hospitals have important obligations in the struggle to reduce the use of tobacco and its deleterious health effects. These obligations include not only a tobacco-free environment to protect non-smokers but also the provision of active support for smokers in their quitting process. This concerns patients as well as all categories of personnel. .

ENSH is an independent, international, non-profit association devoted to strengthen the capacity of hospitals and health care services and their health and staff workers in tobacco control. ENSH’s mission is to contribute to global tobacco control by promoting tobacco-free hospitals and health care services, whilst fostering, endorsing and supporting the active role of health care services in tobacco control by implementing the ENSH code and standards as part of coordinated public health actions. ENSH helps empowerment of health care professionals to overcome resistance to change and to create effective tobacco-free hospitals and health care services.

Do you need information on how effectively implement a tobacco free policy in a hospital or health care service? ENSH has developed a guide with the strategy to develop a stepped project which is adapted to each regional/national culture and particular health care system, connecting with policymakers, and networking with tobacco control advocates and stakeholders. In addition, herre you can find a selection of problems adressed : how to take care of a hospitalized smoker, how hospital staff can assist pregnant women to give up smoking, ,what smoking cessation training programmes exist in several European countries and what professional practices should be used in order to control tobacco.

 

Next ENSH General Assembly Meeting (15th October in Barcelona)    We are pleased to invite you to participate in the annual meeting of the General Assembly of the ENSH Network.   Date: Friday 15th October, 08:30 am. to 18:00 pm        Venue:  Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain   Please click here to see the Agenda Attendance sheet  ENSH Indicators- Workshop     The aim of the workshop is to start this specific work within ENSH by sharing and gathering experiences on indicators used already for tobacco free healthcare services, in different regions and countries and then to continue this work through TFU by also involving HPH experts. (More)   Date: Saturday 16th October, 9:30 am to 12:30 pm Venue: Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain   The ENSH launches a new self-audit questionnaire tool online   The ENSH has developed a new application software which allows hospital coordinators to fill and submit the self-audit questionnaire online. This new tool will allow project coordinators to send the questionnaire quickly and securely through the internet. Up to now, it has been launched in  English, Spanish, Catalan and Swedish, but we hope to increase the number of national languages soon. You can find the application on: http://www.xchsf.com/enshselfaudit/self_audit_index.html Sibylle Fleitmann, Awarded by the WHO   Sibylle Fleitmann, external expert of the ENSH, has been awarded by the WHO in the area of tobacco control for the accomplishments as an international tobacco control expert and for her work as founder and chair of the FACT-Frauen Aktiv Contra Tabac in Germany (Women Against Tobacco).   International GOLD Level Award on Tobacco Free Health Care Services goes to Centre Hospitalari,  Althaia in Spain !!   Two other hospitals, St. Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin, Ireland and salus clinic Lindow, Germany were recognized as working on the GOLD Level.   2010 was the second year in which ENSH successfully organized a GOLD Level Award Process with nominations coming from three countries: Ireland, Spain & Germany. Centre Hospitalari in Althaia was presented with the Gold Level Award for its high level of implementation of the ENSH standards. The hospital, a member of the Catalan network for Tobacco Free Health Care Services, had demonstrated evidence of highest level implementing all ENSH Standards including  tobacco free hospital campus   St. Vincent’s University hospital in Dublin, Ireland and salus Clinic Lindow, Germany received Gold Level Nomination awards and demonstrated evidence of highest level implementing all ENSH Standards with certain provisions for smoking in extreme cases.   Both have indicated that they will continue to identify solutions in pursuit of a tobacco free hospital campus.The awarding ceremony took place during the Pre-Conference on Tobacco Free Health Services on Wednesday April 14th in the framework of the 18th International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services (HPH) in Manchester, UK.   18th HPH Conference Manchester Pre-conference on Tobacco Free Health Services   Great participation at the Tobacco Pre-Conference on Tobacco Health Services. About 70 people attended the session.   Click to browse the programme and the presentations         _____________________________________________   ENSH  has become an independant body!   The recently created ONG is hosted in Barcelona, from the Catalan Institute of Oncologia. The ENSH board members are: Dr Esteve Fernandez (President of ENSH NGO) Ann O' Riordan Jacques Dumont Christa Rustler Begoña Alonso David Chalom   The Statutes of the ENSH can be found here!.  Also you can found the Code of Good Practice.