Published Date: 22 September 2022
Tender Status: planning
Tender Opening Date: n/a
Tender Closing Date: n/a
Award Date: n/a
Contract Start Date: n/a
Contract End Date: n/a
Contract is suitable for SMEs: Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs: Yes
Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) Contract Type:
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets (Council) is looking to commission a Tobacco Cessation Service (anticipated to commence on 1st April 2023). The key objectives of the service are to:
• Reduce the number of local tobacco users in Tower Hamlets, especially amongst priority groups
• Reduce smoking prevalence, smoking-attributable morbidity and mortality in Tower Hamlets
• Prevent uptake and promote quitting
• Deliver services in line with best practice recommendations (NICE NG209)
Provide a high-quality, accessible, culturally tailored, effective and comprehensive tobacco
cessation service
• Prevent smoking uptake and promote quitting via social marketing campaigns and local
workforce development
• Achieve Corporate's quit targets (minimum target: 1,275, desirable target: 1,500), reducing
the number of local smokers in Tower Hamlets, especially among priority groups (Inc.
BAMEs, pregnant women, mental health/severe mental illness, COPD, young people,
LGBTQ+, substance misuse issues, routine and manual workers) with intensive support
• Work with a network of sub-contractors (community pharmacies required) to ensure
equitable access, and strengthen partnership working with primary and secondary care to
establish effective care pathways for local smokers
Contact name: Michel Ngue-Awane
Address: Mulberry Place
London
E14 2BG
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 2073644015
Fax: n/a
Email: [email protected]
Price Range: £2,645,000
