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!

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.

ENSH-Global PowerPoint Presentations

PowerPoint presentations from “Smoke-free, Quality, Qualia and Innovation” Conference in Taiwan (Aug 16-17, 2011 )

New ENSH-Global members [2011]

Georgia, Norway, Sweden and Taiwan had signed the Letter of Intent and are now officially members of the ENSH-Global. Welcome all!!

ENSH News (2)

View here the electronic newsletter of the ENSH-Global[PDF]NewsThe image of ENSH is renewedENSH supporting Tobacco-Free Policy as the Gold Standard for Hospitals and Health Care ServicesSibylle Fleitmann, awarded by the WHOActivitiesNew innovative resource from Ireland. "Yes But, No Butt". A tobacco free standards drama packTwo Irish hospitals with recognition awardsENSH "Silver certification process"ChronicleReport from TaiwanNational NetworksThe history of the egyptian coalition for tobacco controlRecommended publicationsEffectiveness of an inpatient smoking cessation ...

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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 ...

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ENSH General Assembly [Barcelona 2012]

Report of the activities undertaken in 2011 and the future projects foreseen in 2012-2013.

read more here


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.

read more here