Join a global movement
Facilitating action on tobacco control and prevention within healthcare services globally.
Connect and exchange
Benefit from sharing experiences and information on smoke free health service implementation
Access to tools and support
Benefit from a systematic approach using evidence based tools and support from health service peers
Making patient care a priority
Deliver safe quality care for tobacco and nicotine dependence - for every service user, every time and everywhere.
Measure and improve
Utilise evidence-based standards with a process of self-audit to support continuous improvement.
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.
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.”
Barwon Health gains Gold Forum recognition
Barwon Health joins just 9 other health services internationally who have been recognised in 2020 for their high level of smokefree implementation.
VicHealth Action Agenda 2019-2023
VicHealth is participating in coordinated effort to integrate evidence-based smoking cessation support in health service settings.
Tobacco – a health priority for Victoria
Reducing tobacco related harm is among the FOUR focus areas identified in the latest Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Plan 2019-2023, together with climate change, healthy eating and active living.
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.
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.
