Analysis of England's Tobacco Control Plan: A Healthcare Report

This report delves into the Tobacco Control Plan for England, examining its objectives, implementation, and impact on public health and healthcare promotion. It analyzes the policy's background, objectives, and the roles of various stakeholders, including government, healthcare organizations like the NHS, and the social and healthcare workforce. The report evaluates the plan's influence on reducing smoking prevalence, particularly among teenagers and pregnant women, and discusses the political and social factors affecting its success. It also explores the delivery plan for 2017-2022, outlining actions at national and local levels. Furthermore, the report considers the inclusion and exclusion factors related to the policy, along with the roles of different entities involved in the process, such as PHE, DH, and various commissioners. The conclusion highlights the plan's significance in reducing smoking-related deaths and promoting a smoke-free environment, supported by government policies and public efforts. Finally, the report includes references to books and journals that support the information provided.

HEALTHCARE
POLICY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
BACKGROUND ............................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
Tobacco control plan for England...............................................................................................4
Tobacco control plan: delivery plan 2017 to 2022......................................................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
This report is considering the 'Tobacco control plan for England' policy as it is related to
the healthcare promotion and social, political agenda. There government and health care
organisation (NHS) work together for the healthcare promotion, by the making the awareness
about worst effects tobacco products on heath and how to prevent it. In this study report it is
involving the analysis of impact of this policy on public health and healthcare promotion, along
with the study of other social and political policies which effect this in different ways. There the
importance of political ideologies and policy on health inclusion and exclusion is going to be
evaluate. Then the identification sources related to the policy and how it helps in the delivery
health care promotion and safety. Roles of social and health care workforce is also going to be
consider in the assessment (Leatherdale 2019).
BACKGROUND
This policy is developed with the associated efforts and concern of PHE centre director, NHC
trust CES, NHS foundation, medical directors, Director of Adults SSS, Director of Finance,
GPS, communication leads, directors of children's SSS. UK government has made this policy in
order to reduce the premature death in England due to smoking, which is the leading causes of
death in humans. Their is the Vinson of Mr Steve Brine ( member of parliament) to create the
smoke free generation, where every one have to work on the prevention of smoking by helping
the local authority's to control this, by the reduction of their challenges. The national ambition is
to reduce the smoking prevalence below the 5% (Sheron 2016).
In the England and Wales public health is manage and promoted by the local and health
care authority's, who works according to their power for emergency which is given to them by
Public Health act 1984. issues related to this policy is the tobacco industry and their advertising
for tobacco product promotion which highly impact the tobacco control plan, as there is the some
law and rules for the tobacco product advertisement, only one the basis of those rules they can
advertise their product and they can not promote it on commercial level on TV and radio. But
they have protested for this and made various difficulty one implementation of this tobacco
control act. It has been analysed that there is almost 200 deaths which is cause by smoking in
every day, there is the risk of miscarriage due to the smoking in pregnancy. Some type smoking
causes the birth with neonatal complications (Wolfenden 2017). Although smoking rate is reduce

in some amount but it is still there in some percentage such as over the 10% pregnant women
smoke. In the society of peoples who is already facing some health-issues is are having higher
rate of smoking cases. There is the higher rate of smoking in lower earning people in
compression to the highest earner. In the poor society people die on premature age.
MAIN BODY
Tobacco control plan for England
Objective of this policy is to reduce the smoking in England in order to make smoke free
environment. Their are the involvement of some rules and regulations for the prevention of
smoking in 15 year old group of teenagers who regularly smoke between 8% to 4% or less then
this. It also focus on the reduction of smoking from adult age group where 15 % or less then this
adult smoke. Another most important aim of this policy is to prevent the smoking during
pregnancy from between 1 to 6% of the female group, according to this policy concept they want
achieve these objective by the end of 2022. After the development of this policy the smoking rate
in adult age group is reduced into 15.5% from 20% as decided in the plan. This success lead the
public health and promotion into positive improvement stage such as the development of new
legislation related to the management of advertising and making smoke free places. Along with
the introduction of new measures for the graphical healthcare warning on every public area, for
the promotion of health care warning (Alderwick 2018). Now with in the ban of smoking in
some public area, UK has achieved one of the best legislation control over the tobacco product
consumption in the world.
Tobacco control plan: delivery plan 2017 to 2022
This policy involves the different action plan in order to achieve the goals of tobacco
control plan for England and to monitor the performance of the action plans. Plan of this
delivery policy is to monitor can be met, And this tobacco control plan which was punished in
July 2017. this conducts the planing for the development of different sets of events which is
expected at national and local levels. This involves actions related to the government
department, national agencies, local partnership. It is one of the crucial political agenda which
mostly consider in the political and health care promotion consideration as it is one of disease
causing product and essential component of the higher tax for the government, from which
government is getting higher rate of the tax. So because of the economical terms government

can not ban the tobacco products and they can not promote it due to its worst effects on health
(Record 2017).
There are many of inclusion or exclusion are there which is related with this policy which
is tobacco control plan for England which are there can give different opinion on such policy.
Inclusion includes those who are there having there in support of such policy and participation in
the successful implementation of such policy who are there supporting to make the England
better place to live and want to get reduction in the number of smokers in the country which
includes the children having age about 15 years. There are many of the problems which are there
having negative effect on the public health specially to the teenagers who are having such in
regular manner. Here, the political parties and the socialist want to successful of this policy
which can help in getting better health of the citizens. Here, there is supporting the e-cigarette
which are there having negative effect less than 90% in comparison to the smoking. This can
help in changing the habit of smoking into e-cigarette which can then reduced to help in getting
out of smoking and can get the better health which is getting decrease due to smoking. There are
some of the industrialist which are there can help in getting more profit with such tobacco
business (Notlen 2018). They are getting loss in their profit which are getting a huge problem to
them and want such policy to give them little relaxations in which they can sell their product
with some modification in relation to create less health issues due to smoking. In this, there are
many of the research and development process are on their way to reduce the toxicity or negative
health effect in the smoking process as the result. Such are the some of inclusion and exclusion
of health along with political ideology which is related with the policy which is tobacco control
plan of England
Government provide the training to the healthcare professionals for smoking prevention
along with the development of different level of sections for tobacco retailers who are braking
the law, in order to protect young once from this habit. PHE analyse different practises in
services system for the effective implementation of smoke free policies throughout the England.
NSH work on the reduction of smoking rate in pregnant women's with the Live Care Bundle.
They conduct the measurement of smoking rate in people for the development of prevention
techniques. CCG's, Trust and local council are implemented 9 for the smoking prevention during
pregnancy and after the birth of baby. Their is the important role of the PHE to monitor the
smoking prevention services effects (Peer 2017). They have to make sure that every professional

should have the proper training which can helps smoker to quit this. DH focus on the undated
services development for the smoking stop strategy. Commissioner and other providers of the
social and local health system works on the needs of stop smoke system and effective
intervention development. DH is responsible to mange the and monitor the impact of policy
legislation on tobacco products of England. National government involves multiple roles in
smoking prevention, as magistrates offers the information about smoking impact and sentencing
options in case tobacco crime, there is many more other function and sources involve in this
policy which helps in the success of this policy (Chang and et. al., 2018).
CONCLUSION
From the above study it has been analysed that tobacco product is one of the factor which
causes major rate of death and this can be control by the aid of government policy and public
support. Tobacco control plan for England is developed with the associated concern of
government and health care authority's which focus on the removal of smoking from the
generation with the aid of different function and activity's. Those activity's focus one the
advertisement of health care awareness related to this along with the other medical support and
social survives. They also involves the some tobacco crime prevention rules according to which
young once can be protected for this bad habit.

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Books and Journals
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Record 2017. Tobacco-free policy compliance behaviors among college students: A theory of
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Notlen 2018. Redefining smoking relapse as recovered social identity–secondary qualitative
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Peer 2017. There has been little progress in implementing comprehensive alcohol control
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Chang and et. al., 2018. Trends in inequality in cigarette smoking prevalence by income
according to recent anti-smoking policies in Korea: use of three National Surveys.
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