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Stop Smoking Services Collection

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

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Frequency: quarterly

Background to the collection

The Stop Smoking Services Quarterly Return is a Public Health England (PHE) 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 Digital (formerly the HSCIC). 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 2022/23 24 August 2022 20 September 2022
Quarter 2 2022/23 23 November 2022 20 December 2022
Quarter 3 2022/23 22 February 2023 21 March 2023
Quarter 1-3 2022/23 Resubmissions 3 May 2023 22 May 2023
Quarter 4  2022/23 31 May 2023 27 June 2023

These are provisional dates only and are subject to change.

Local authority public health data returns

Past publications

Submission system

Guidance

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Strategic Data Collection Service (SDCS)

The Strategic Data Collection Service (SDCS) is a secure data collection system used by health and social care organisations to submit data to NHS Digital.
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National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT)

Service and delivery guidance
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National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT) spontaneous quitters

Spontaneous quitters: clarification of the 48-hour rule.

Last edited: 24 May 2023 8:13 am