Harmful air where we should feel most safe: addressing health inequalities using a QI approach to tackle smoking on a hospital site.

Authors

Emma Roycroft, Emma Rebecca Vittery, Victoria Adekunle, Babatunde Okeowo, Michael Edward Deary, Balsam Ahmad

Published in

Archives of disease in childhood. Education and practice edition. Oct 06, 2026. Epub Oct 06, 2026.

Abstract

A quality improvement project at a large North East England teaching hospital targeted smoking near maternity and neonatal entrances. Interventions included tannoy announcements and engagement by Tobacco Dependency Advisors (TDAs). Smoking episodes fell by 38% over 7 weeks. Both Tobacco Dependency Advisor (TDA) presence and regular tannoy announcements were independently associated with significant reductions, with little aggression reported. The project highlighted the need for ongoing interventions and has since been expanded hospital-wide.

PMID:
42838719
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 07 Oct 2026.

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