Presentation and Objectives
Presentation
Law 42/2010 on health measures against smoking establishes a total ban on smoking in health centers and throughout their premises.
Parc Taulí has been a member, since 2005, of the Catalan Network of Smoke-Free Hospitals (XCHSF), part of the European Network Smoke-free Hospital, promoted by the European Commission.
Both patients and professionals at Parc Taulí who are smokers can take advantage of the programs and aids for smoking cessation offered by the Corporation.
The Catalan Network of Smoke-Free Hospitals carries out and evaluates the degree of implementation of the project in each center every 2 years, through the achievement of the quality standards of the European Non Smoke Hospitals (ENSH), which are the ones it must meet a health organization to be considered free of tobacco smoke.
In our institution, the Smokeless Park Taulí Promotion Committee is the one that promotes, energizes and evaluates the guidelines established by the ENSH:
Preserve the premises and the environment of the hospital free of tobacco smoke.
Mark hospital areas as free of tobacco smoke.
Carry out health promotion, making both workers and citizens aware of the risks of tobacco use.
Offer help to smoking patients and workers (triptych) to stop smoking.
Targets
Among the objectives and general lines of work that have been defined, and that must be deployed over the coming months, are the following:
- Design and implement a comprehensive internal policy that encourages the participation of all professionals - health and non-health - of all units and services.
- Preserve the premises and the environment of the hospital free of tobacco smoke.
- Mark the areas of the hospital (internal and external) as smoking bans.
- Raise awareness among both professionals and citizens about the risks of tobacco use, and offer tools to help them quit.