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new in 2026

14.09.2026

Meet the Exhibitors (In-person only)

19:30

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21:30

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

14.09.2026

Meet the Exhibitors (In-person only)

Enjoy canapés and refreshments at this informal free event with SCaH partners and exhibitors. Sponsored by Smoke Free Digital.

19:30

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21:30

Eastside Rooms

15.09.26 Opening Plenary: National Policy, Evidence and Guidance

Welcome and Opening

08:45

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09:00

Eastside Rooms

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15.09.26 Opening Plenary: National Policy, Evidence and Guidance

Welcome and Opening

Rosanna O’Connor, Chair, Action on Smoking & Health.

08:45

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09:00

Eastside Rooms

Accelerating progress towards a smoke-free UK

09:00

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09:15

Eastside Rooms

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Accelerating progress towards a smoke-free UK

Rich Boden, Deputy Director, Tobacco and Vapes, DHSC.

09:00

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09:15

Eastside Rooms

NHS Smoking Cessation Services

09:15

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09:30

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

NHS Smoking Cessation Services

Adrian Bartlett, Deputy Director, Diabetes, Respiratory, Tobacco and Strategy, NHS England.

09:15

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09:30

Eastside Rooms

Keynote Opening Address: Targeting and Tailoring

09:30

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09:45

Eastside Rooms

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Keynote Opening Address: Targeting and Tailoring

Dr Andy McEwen, Chief Executive, NCSCT.

09:30

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09:45

Eastside Rooms

Panel Q&A

09:45

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10:10

Eastside Rooms

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Panel Q&A

Chair: Martin Dockrell.

09:45

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10:10

Eastside Rooms

Break, poster viewing and exhibition

10:10

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10:40

Eastside Rooms

Break, poster viewing and exhibition

10:10

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10:40

Eastside Rooms

Innovations in Practice Breakout

The truth about illicit tobacco

10:40

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10:55

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Innovations in Practice Breakout

The truth about illicit tobacco

John Waldron, Policy and Public Affairs Manager, Action on Smoking & Health.

10:40

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10:55

Eastside Rooms

Vaping: the evidence, the risks and guidance for those who want to stop

10:55

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11:10

Eastside Rooms

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Vaping: the evidence, the risks and guidance for those who want to stop

Dr Kirstie Soar, Tobacco Harm Reduction Academic Consultant, NCSCT: Louise Ross, Clinical Consultant, NCSCT.

10:55

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11:10

Eastside Rooms

Nicotine pouches: making sense of the evidence

11:10

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11:25

Eastside Rooms

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Nicotine pouches: making sense of the evidence

Dr Harry Tattan-Birch, Senior Research Fellow and Statistician, UCL.

11:10

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11:25

Eastside Rooms

Q&A

11:25

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11:50

Eastside Rooms

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Q&A

Chair: Mary Yates, Expert Mental Health Nurse Consultant, NCSCT

11:25

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11:50

Eastside Rooms

Community and a Smokefree Generation Breakout

What happened with the additional £70 million investment in local stop smoking services?

10:40

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10:55

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Community and a Smokefree Generation Breakout

What happened with the additional £70 million investment in local stop smoking services?

Dr Debbie Robson, Reader in Tobacco Harm Reduction; Dr Hannah Walsh, NIHR Postdoctoral Fellow; Dr John Robins, Research Associate Nicotine R...

Event Details

10:40

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10:55

Eastside Rooms

Using the Public Health Grant self-assessment tool SASIT to strengthen stop smoking service delivery

10:55

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11:10

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Using the Public Health Grant self-assessment tool SASIT to strengthen stop smoking service delivery

Jo Locker, Senior Tobacco Control Programme Manager, DHSC.


10:55

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11:10

Eastside Rooms

From good to great: Evidence underpinning the LA SASIT

11.10

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11:25

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

From good to great: Evidence underpinning the LA SASIT

Sophia Papadakis,Academic and Health Systems Consultant,

NCSCT.

11.10

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11:25

Eastside Rooms

Q&A

11.25

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11:50

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Q&A

Chair: Dr Paul Cilia La Corte, Senior Programme Manager Prevention, NHSE

11.25

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11:50

Eastside Rooms

Inequalities in Cessation Breakout

Integrating smoking cessation treatment into NHS Talking Therapies Services

10:40

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10:55

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Inequalities in Cessation Breakout

Integrating smoking cessation treatment into NHS Talking Therapies Services

Dr Gemma Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Public Health / Reader, University of Bristol / University of Bath

10:40

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10:55

Eastside Rooms

Insights from London’s LGBTQ+ smoking cessation campaign

10:55

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11:10

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Insights from London’s LGBTQ+ smoking cessation campaign

Jon Winter, Stakeholder Relations Lead, London Tobacco Alliance.

10:55

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11:10

Eastside Rooms

Swap to Stop in Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Communities

11:10

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11:25

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Swap to Stop in Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Communities

 Louise Pennock, Public Health Lead, Newcastle Council.

11:10

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11:25

Eastside Rooms

Q&A

11:25

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11:50

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Q&A

Chair: Hanna Ellison, Programme Manager for Tobacco, NHSE.

11:25

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11:50

Eastside Rooms

Lunch, poster viewing and exhibition

11:50

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12:50

Eastside Rooms

Lunch, poster viewing and exhibition

11:50

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12:50

Eastside Rooms

Critical Moments in Secondary Care Breakout

New opportunities: Expanding tobacco dependence treatment across the patient journey

12:50 - 13:05

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Critical Moments in Secondary Care Breakout

New opportunities: Expanding tobacco dependence treatment across the patient journey

Carla Anderson (TDTS Service Lead, Northumbria NHSFT).

12:50 - 13:05

Eastside Rooms

TBC

13:05 - 13:20

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

TBC

TBC

13:05 - 13:20

Eastside Rooms

Spirometry and lung cancer screening for people with SMI

13:20 - 13:35

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Spirometry and lung cancer screening for people with SMI

Raymond McGrath, Smokefree Healthy Hospital Programme Lead, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

13:20 - 13:35

Eastside Rooms

Q&A

13:35 - 14:00

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Q&A

Chair: Dr Paul Cilia La Corte, Senior Programme Manager – Prevention, NHSE.

13:35 - 14:00

Eastside Rooms

Prevention at Scale Breakout

Smoking in Pregnancy - what next?

12:50

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13:05

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Prevention at Scale Breakout

Smoking in Pregnancy - what next?

Hilary Wareing, Director, Improving Performance in Practice (iPiP); Jo Locker, Senior Tobacco Control Programme Manager, DHSC.

12:50

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13:05

Eastside Rooms

Reaching people where they are, when they want, with what they need

13:05

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13:20

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Reaching people where they are, when they want, with what they need

Dr Eleni Vangeli DPsych, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, London South Bank University. Sponsored by Smoke Free.

13:05

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13:20

Eastside Rooms

Poverty and Tobacco

13:20

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13:35

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Poverty and Tobacco

Noah Traill, Action on Smoking and Health

13:20

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13:35

Eastside Rooms

Q&A

13:35

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14:00

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Q&A

Chair: Joanna Feeney, Stop Smoking Systems Strategic Manager, Fresh and Balance.

13:35

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14:00

Eastside Rooms

Reaching Beyond Boundaries Breakout

Underserved Groups (East of England)

12:50

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13:05

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Reaching Beyond Boundaries Breakout

Underserved Groups (East of England)

TBC

12:50

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13:05

Eastside Rooms

Supporting people with serious mental Illness to stop smoking: Developing a tailored service model

13:05

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13:20

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Supporting people with serious mental Illness to stop smoking: Developing a tailored service model

Orla Madden, Pathway Development Lead-Smoking Cessation, Kirklees Council Wellness Service: Sandeep Rai, Health Coach, Kirklees Council Well...

Event Details

13:05

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13:20

Eastside Rooms

Using HIVE to embed opt-out tobacco dependency treatment for underserved groups in secondary care

13:20

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13:53

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Using HIVE to embed opt-out tobacco dependency treatment for underserved groups in secondary care

Ruth Sharrock, Respiratory Consultant and Health Equity (HIVE) Clinical Lead; Caitlin Robinson, Health Equity (HIVE) Programme Lead. Gateshe...

Event Details

13:20

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13:53

Eastside Rooms

Q&A

13:235

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14:00

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Q&A

Chair: Chair: Mary Yates, Expert Mental Health Nurse Consultant, NCSCT

13:235

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14:00

Eastside Rooms

Break, poster viewing and exhibition

14:00

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14:20

Eastside Rooms

Break, poster viewing and exhibition

14:00

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14:20

Eastside Rooms

SCaH Rapid Fire Oral Presentations

14:20

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14:50

Eastside Rooms

SCaH Rapid Fire Oral Presentations

14:20

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14:50

Eastside Rooms

Closing Plenary: Uniting for Impact, Connecting the Dots

Keynote Closing Address – Mind the Gap

14:50

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15:05

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Closing Plenary: Uniting for Impact, Connecting the Dots

Keynote Closing Address – Mind the Gap

Professor Sanjay Agrawal, National Specialty Adviser, NHSE.

14:50

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15:05

Eastside Rooms

Ending Smoking for Everyone, Everywhere

15:05

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15:35

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Ending Smoking for Everyone, Everywhere

Andrea Crossfield, Population Health Policy and Strategy Consultant (CHAMPS); Martyn Wilmore, Head of Preventable Risk Factors, Centre for E...

Event Details

15:05

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15:35

Eastside Rooms

Panel Q&A

15:35

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15:50

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Panel Q&A

Panel Q&A Chair Dr Amanda Farley, Associate Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham.

15:35

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15:50

Eastside Rooms

Award Ceremony and Close

15:50

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16:00

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

Award Ceremony and Close

Hilary Wareing, Director, Improving Performance in Practice (iPiP) with David Crane, Smokefree Digital.

15:50

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16:00

Eastside Rooms

new in 2026

15.09.2026

SCaH Unfringed - Emerging Issues & New Challenges (all delegates)

16:15

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17:15

Eastside Rooms

Event Details

15.09.2026

SCaH Unfringed - Emerging Issues & New Challenges (all delegates)

Led by the NCSCT and Smoke Free Digital

16:15

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17:15

Eastside Rooms

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