Public Health

  • Smoking cessation services

    If a smoking cessation service were to be commissioned in your area would it be your responsibility. If not, whose? Yes  Do you currently commission smoking cessation services from community pharmacies in your area? Yes  If yes: How many individual … Continue reading →

  • Vision Impairment services

    1. At present, how many people are registered as blind or partially sighted in Devon? The most recent figures held by Devon County Council are 4,251, comprising 2,082 registered blind and 2,169 registered partially sighted. 2. How many people are … Continue reading →

  • Continence clinic for children

    Does your local authority provide a dedicated continence clinic? Yes / No. No.  [There is a CCG-commissioned Level 2 continence clinic provided by one of the local NHS Trusts] If you answered no, please go to question 5. Which of … Continue reading →

  • Cervical Cancer Screening

    What activities has your local authority undertaken to promote cervical screening and increase uptake over the last year, August 2016 to August 2017? (We are looking for an outline of any activities that the local authority public health team has … Continue reading →

  • Public Health – Alcohol Dependency in Devon

    Does the Local Authority’s Director of Public Health have an estimate for the number of:  a)      Dependent drinkers within your local authority area? b)      Hazardous drinkers within your local authority area? The following is taken from the Substance Misuse Rapid … Continue reading →

  • Domestic Violence Services – Funding

    Request and Response: “I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. In order to assist you with this request, I am outlining my query as specifically as possible. For the following questions I would like … Continue reading →

  • Opiate client treatment

    1. According to the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS), how many opiate clients were in treatment between 31st March 2016 and 1st April 2017? Don’t know;    x Number of opiate clients in treatment: Don’t know. Devon County Council do … Continue reading →

  • Public Health expenditure

    For the financial year 2015/16, please list methods for assessing the efficacy of the following non-statutory public health functions of the Director of Public Health, including cost-effectiveness, for each of: Smoking and tobacco – Stop smoking services and interventions Physical … Continue reading →

  • Substance misuse budgets

    From your allocated Public Health budget, how much did you spend on the following areas of drug and alcohol treatment? 1. Total substance misuse budget. 2. Residential rehabilitation budget (tier4) 3. Residential detoxification budget (tier 4) 4. Community substance misuse … Continue reading →

  • Domestic abuse funding

    1. Total Council spending on domestic abuse services for each financial year between 2004-2005 and 2016-2017, inclusive. Please see the table available via the link below for the information from 2009 onwards. We are unable to provide details in the same format … Continue reading →