New dates for the Gold Forum Process in 2024!
The dates and detailed timeframes for the Global Network Gold Forum process for 2024 are now available - Gold Certification Process 2024
Follow the link below to submit an expression of interest.
National Tobacco Strategy 2023–2030
The National Tobacco Strategy aims to improve the health of all Australians by reducing the prevalence of tobacco use and its associated health, social, environmental and economic costs, and the inequalities it causes.
Global Network Conference 2023
The Global Network Conference with Gold Forum Event will be held as a hybrid event (Vienna, Austria) on Wednesday 20 September. This will be held as a pre–conference event to the 9th International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services
National Preventive Health Strategy
The Prevention Centre has welcomed the release of the National Preventive Health Strategy 2021-2030 with 'reduced tobacco use' identified as an immediate priority to boost prevention action in the first years of this Strategy and to impact health outcomes across all stages of life.
Click the link below to view the National Preventive Health Strategy.
Guidance information for emergency care settings
Responding to a request from the Victorian Coroner, VNSHS has worked with Eastern Health and other stakeholders to develop guidance information for managing nicotine dependence and withdrawal in emergency care settings.
Quit Centre - Together we can make a difference
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Quit Centre's campaign - Together we can make a difference - encourages health professionals to provide a simple intervention that can increase the likelihood their patients will succeed at quitting smoking. Click the link below to view the campaign website.
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VNSHS Regional Validation Program
VNSHS members have the opportunity to have their performance against the Global standards independently validated through the VNSHS Regional Validation Program.
Health Promoting Hospitals 2020 standards
The Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services Network is pleased to announce the release of new standards to guide the integration of health promotion initiatives.
Resources to support pregnant women and their partners
New resources from QUIT Victoria support interventions for smoking cessation for pregnant women and their partners.
Victorian Cancer Plan
Smoking is front and centre in the Victorian Cancer Plan for 2020-24, which emphasises “embedding support to quit smoking across the health and human services system.”
Ask Advise Help – Resources for health services
Quit Victoria, together with the RACGP and other stakeholders, has adopted the three-step AAH brief advice model as part of a strategy to embed smoking cessation support into routine care across the health system.
The 2020 ENSP Tobacco Dependence Treatment Guidelines
