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Quit smoking or there's no op - NHS -  Will Sussex follow suit?

Monday October 23, 02:16 AM

Health chiefs in Norfolk plan to save money by encouraging smokers to quit before undergoing routine operations.

Doctors say they are following a programme tried in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs, and health authority bosses hope that the move will improve general health and cut hospital costs.

They say research shows that smokers take more time to recover from surgery - and therefore have longer and more expensive stays in hospital - and are more likely to suffer complications.

The Norfolk Primary Care Trust, which is £50m in the red, says smokers earmarked for routine surgery will first be referred to a smoking cessation clinic and given a target time in which to break the habit.

They say anyone needing urgent surgery will not be affected.

"Norfolk is not the first place to try this," said a spokesman for the county's main hospital, the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in Norwich. "It has been tried in Newcastle-under-Lyme, if not elsewhere. The idea is that efforts will be made to help smokers stop before they have routine surgery.

He said he understood that other health authorities were considering similar schemes.