Campaign “Health Care Professionals for a Tobacco Free World"

All over the world, health professionals are fighting against tobacco related death and disease. To support this campaign click [here].The campaign looks tomotivate health care professionals and personnel to actively work to achieve atobacco free world. Act now!

Pre-Conference on Tobacco Free Health Care Services

PowerPoint presentations Pre-Conference on Tobacco Free Health Care ServicesApril 2012, TaiwanAll the pictures here

The ENSH GOLD Forum 2012

was held on Wednesday 11th of April 2012 during the 20th International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH) in Taiwan. About 320 attendees from 29 different nations participated in this session. During the pre-conference six hospitals were honored as ENSH GOLD Forum Members, the highest level of recognition of ENSH-Global Network for Tobacco Free Health Care Services.These hospitals were: 1) Taiwan Adventist Hospital; 2) St. Martin de Porres Hospital, Taiwan; 3) Cathay ...

New ENSH-Global members [2012]

Asturias (Spain) has signed the Letter of Intent and is now officially a member of the ENSH-Global. Welcome Asturias!!

ENSH General Assembly [Barcelona 2012]

Report of the activities undertaken in 2011 and the future projects foreseen in 2012-2013.16th of March from 12:00 to 18:30 at the ENSH Coordinating Center. Institut Català d'Oncologia, Av. Gran Via 199-203. L'Hospitalet del Llobregat, Barcelona (Spain).

6 candidates participating in the ENSH Gold Forum 2012

The successful ENSH GOLD Forum Members will present, share and discuss results and implementation experiences at the Tobacco pre-conference on the 20th International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services. To achieve ENSH GOLD Forum Membership, candidates must show high performance and demonstrate evidence of excellent progress with implementing the ENSH Standards on tobacco cessation programs and tobacco free policies through a peer-review process. The pre-conference, organized by Tobacco ...

Tobacco Control Framework 2010-2015

This framework document was developed by the Health Service Executive (HSE)Tobacco Control Framework project group guided by a national steering group in orderto inform HSE policy and provide a coherent HSE approach to tobacco use in Ireland. Indeveloping the Tobacco Control Framework a population health approach has beenconsidered as outlined in the HSE’s Population Health Strategy.

Gold Forum Process Taiwan 2012

The aim of the Forum is to provide recognition for the long time efforts and strong commitment of health care services on tobacco control.The experiences provided by Forum members will serve to inspire health care services interested in implementing the ENSH concept. It will also provide practical assistance to networks were tobacco legislation is weak and be a rich source of best practice models in a variety of settings. 

ENSH-Global New Website

Welcome to our new website! This is a Beta Version, we are testing the new design. If you are experiencing problems please contact us at ensh@iconcologia.net

Joint Comission: 'Action to Quit'

The Joint Commision has released its long-awaited tobacco measure set. The new certification measures will require participating hospitals to screen all inpatients for tobacco, provide counseling and pharmacologic treatment to tobacco users, and provide limited follow-up after discharge. This measure set is currently being incorporated into the Joint Commission/CMS specifications manual for national hospital inpatient quality measures.

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Pre-Conference on Tobacco Free Health Care Services

PowerPoint presentations Pre-Conference on Tobacco Free Health Care ServicesApril 2012, TaiwanAll the pictures here

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The ENSH GOLD Forum 2012

was held on Wednesday 11th of April 2012 during the 20th International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH) in Taiwan. About 320 attendees from 29 different nations participated in this session. During the pre-conference ...

read more here


New ENSH-Global members [2012]

Asturias (Spain) has signed the Letter of Intent and is now officially a member of the ENSH-Global. Welcome Asturias!!

read more here