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Stop Smoking Services Collection

The Stop Smoking Services Quarterly Return is a Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) central return used to monitor the delivery of Stop Smoking Services (prior to 1 April 2013 this was a Department of Health (DH) return).

Frequency: quarterly


Background to the collection

The Stop Smoking Services Quarterly Return is a Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) central return used to monitor the delivery of Stop Smoking Services (prior to 1 April 2013 this was a Department of Health (DH) return).

The return is collected from Local Authorities (LAs) by NHS England. The stop smoking collection is implemented via the Strategic Data Collection System (SDCS).

The return is made in an Excel spreadsheet which is downloaded from the system in each reporting quarter.

The submission spreadsheet contains one tab to collect the data for the submission quarter. A new spreadsheet should be downloaded and populated for each quarter.


Launch and submission dates

Reporting period Submission start date Submission end date
Quarter 1 2024/25 14 August 2024 17 September 2024
Quarter 2 2024/25 27 November 2024 17 January 2025
Quarter 1 2024/25 resubmissions 20 January 2025 31 January 2025
Quarter 3 2024/25 12 February 2025 18 March 2025
Quarter 1 2024/25 resubmissions 26 March 2025 1 April 2025
Quarter 2 2024/25 resubmissions 9 April 2025 15 April 2025
Quarter 3 2024/25 resubmissions 23 April 2025 29 April 2025
Quarter 4 2024/25 14 May 2025 18 June 2025

These are provisional dates only and are subject to change.


Local authority public health data returns


Past publications


Submission system


Guidance

Last edited: 2 January 2025 2:54 pm