Feedback on smoking cessation and pulmonary rehabilitation services in Islington
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Healthwatch Islington was commissioned to gather feedback from people experiencing health inequalities about smoking cessation and pulmonary rehabilitation services. They spoke to 98 people.
A ‘community champions’ model could work well for promoting smoking cessation services given the lack of success stories within the communities Healthwatch spoke to and language barriers preventing some people who had engaged with smoking cessation services (and to a lesser extent pulmonary rehabilitation services) from getting the most from them.
13 of the 14 respondents who were not aware that there was support available to help them stop smoking were Somali men. If this trend is corroborated by other research data it would suggest that the promotion of smoking cessation services within the Somali community should be a priority.
Poor air quality was identified as a problem by some residents who had successfully engaged with pulmonary rehabilitation services.
One patient who had tried to engage with pulmonary rehabilitation resources on the Whittington Health website felt that the online offer could be improved. Specifically, they would have welcomed more direction/instruction as to how to get the best out of the online resources.