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Masterclass: Smoking and smoking cessation ... ention. Advise that you are always happy to help in the future if they need it and other treatments are available if necessary. Vaping In 2023 4.7 million adults (9.1% of the UK population) vaped. This is an increase from 4.3 million (8.3%) in 2022 and 3.7 million (7.1%) in 2021. Of the 4.7 million in 2023, 4.4 million were ex-smokers or current smokers while 320,000 had never smoked. Whe ... Date: 20-03-2025 Categories: • Mental health, pain and addiction • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening
Kent and Essex to receive largest share of additional smoking cessation funding ... And the new Labour government has continued this intention, introducing a bill to progressively increase the age at which people can buy cigarettes and imposing limits on the sales and marketing of vapes. The Government said the £70m in funding for smoking cessation services was targeted towards local authorities with the most smokers, and allocations were based on the average smoking preva ... Date: 07-01-2025 Categories: • Cardiovascular • Respiratory
NHS England announces relaunch of anti-smoking pill varenicline ... 85,000 people try to stop smoking each year. It will be used as an additional treatment for patients alongside behavioural support such as counselling, and it has ‘been shown to work as well as vapes’ for smoking cessation, according to NHS England. NHSE chief executive Amanda Pritchard will announce the rollout at a speech today, following the relaunched generic product’s approval ... Date: 12-11-2024 Categories: • Cardiovascular • Mental health, pain and addiction • Respiratory
'Historic' legislation to ban smoking laid in Parliament The Government has today introduced ‘historic’ legislation to phase out smoking among young people, extend the smoking ban to outdoor spaces, and clamp down on vaping. The Tobacco and vapes Bill, introduced in Parliament today, will ‘create a smokefree generation’ by banning the sale of tobacco products across the UK to anyone aged 15 or younger this year. Legislation for ... Date: 05-11-2024 Categories: • Cardiovascular • Politics • Respiratory
Single-use vapes to be banned from next summer Single-use disposable vapes will be banned in England and Wales from summer next year, the Government has confirmed. New legislation to prohibit the sales of single-use vapes will come into force on 1 June 2025, ministers s ... Date: 24-10-2024 Categories: • Mental health, pain and addiction • Paediatrics • Respiratory
Vaping among never-smokers increases seven-fold ... ve levelled off since early 2023. The analysis did point to certain risk factors in non-smokers who take up vaping with the sharpest increase in those classed as the heaviest drinkers, of whom 22% vaped It could suggest vaping may be more common among people who would otherwise have gone on to smoke, the researchers said. Overall, the profile of vapers had changed in recent years to be younge ... Date: 16-10-2024 Categories: • Cardiovascular • Respiratory
BMA urges ban on disposable and 'non-tobacco flavoured' vapes The BMA has called for a ban on all disposable and ‘non-tobacco’ flavoured vapes in a bid to stop the ‘epidemic’ of vaping. A new report by the doctors’ union has set out a series of ‘bold actions’ for the Government to take to ‘stem the trend of increased v ... Date: 28-08-2024 Categories: • Mental health, pain and addiction • Respiratory
New Government rubberstamps plans to ban smoking ... the King laid out the Government’s legislative agenda for the coming months including the bills it will introduce to Parliament. The Government has committed to carrying forward the Tobacco and vapes Bill, which originated during Rishi Sunak’s time as Prime Minister. Under the new legislation, the age at which people can buy cigarettes will progressively increase and there will be ... Date: 17-07-2024 Categories: • Cardiovascular • Politics • Respiratory
Smoking rates in pregnancy fall to all-time low ... xpectant mothers.’ Last year, the Government said ICSs would be expected to take a lead on smoking prevention as part of a national ‘smoke free scheme’ which included smokers being offered vapes to help them quit. In February, nearly 400,000 vape kits were set to be sent to smokers in England as part of the swap-to-stop scheme. At least four ICBs and more than 80 localities ... Date: 04-07-2024 Categories: • Cancer • Mental health, pain and addiction • Respiratory
CPD: Key questions on supporting patients to quit tobacco smoking Smoking cessation specialists Dr Alex Bobak and Louise Ross answer key questions on supporting people to quit tobacco smoking, covering the latest on supply issues with medications, the role of e-cigaret ... Date: 30-04-2024 Categories: • Cancer • CPD • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening
MPs vote through smoking ban for future generations ... n smoking for future generations has made progress in Parliament with MPs voting it through last night. The House of Commons vote saw 383 MPs vote in favour and 67 MPs vote against the Tobacco and vapes Bill. The bill will now need to pass a number of other hurdles, including a committee stage and then the same process in the House of Lords. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the smoking ba ... Date: 17-04-2024 Categories: • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening
New ‘vape tax’ to discourage non-smokers from vaping ... discourage non-smokers from taking up vaping’, the government would introduce an excise duty on vaping products from October 2026, and would be consulting on how the tax was designed. ‘Because vapes can also play a positive role in helping people quit smoking, we will introduce a one-off increase in tobacco duty at the same time to maintain the financial incentive to choose vaping over smoking, ... Date: 07-03-2024 Categories: • Vaccinations, prevention and screening
Smokers' views on harms of vaping worsened in recent years ... t perceptions had recovered by late 2020 but then they declined again from 2021 through to 2023 amid growing concern about youth vaping. In January the Government announced it would ban disposable vapes and restrict flavours marketed at children as part of efforts to combat youth vaping across the UK. Last year, researchers declared that nicotine vaping is the most effective among widely av ... Date: 04-03-2024 Categories: • Vaccinations, prevention and screening
Government to ban disposable vape products and marketing appealing to children The Government will ban disposable vapes and restrict flavours marketed at children as part of efforts to combat youth vaping across the UK. In his announcement today, the Prime Minister also reiterated his commitment to creating ... Date: 29-01-2024 Categories: • Paediatrics • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening
Vaping safe to help pregnant women stop smoking, UK research suggests ... t associated with any adverse outcomes. Birth weights of babies born to pregnant women who had stopped smoking and were using either nicotine product were higher than in smokers. While users of vapes and NRT did not differ in any safety outcomes looked at for mothers or babies the researchers did note they did note that the study was only looking at the later stages of pregnancy and all the wome ... Date: 23-01-2024 Categories: • Vaccinations, prevention and screening • Women's health, gynaecology and obstetrics
Labour promises 'healthiest ever' generation of children ... . Other pledges include: Implementing the 9pm watershed for junk food advertising on television and ban paid-for advertising of less healthy foods on online media aimed at children; Banning vapes from being advertised to appeal to children, and make sure that the incremental smoking ban passes through Parliament; Introducing specialist mental health support for children and young people i ... Date: 11-01-2024 Categories: • Gastroenterology and obesity • Mental health, pain and addiction • Paediatrics • Politics
Government proposes measures to crack down on teenage vaping ... al options for cracking down on youth vaping are also included in the consultation after figures form 2023 suggest one in five children has tried it. Measures will need to balance the need to make vapes available to current adult smokers to help them quit while reducing access and appeal for children and teenagers, the consultation document states. Possible changes in law range from limits on ho ... Date: 12-10-2023 Categories: • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening
Prime Minister announces plan for phasing out smoking ... To support current smokers to quit, the Government promised more funding for local ‘stop smoking services’ to help support around 360,000 people to try and quit, including through swapping to vapes. But the Government also said that too many children ‘are becoming addicted at a young age’, which carries a significant risk, and it will consider how to reduce the appeal and availability o ... Date: 04-10-2023 Categories: • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening
Nicotine vaping is most effective smoking cessation aid, say researchers ... effective tools to help them quit, they concluded. Earlier this year, the Government announced that one million smokers in England will be encouraged to swap cigarettes for vaping using a free ‘vape starter kit’. It comes amidst reports that the Government is considering banning disposable vapes over concerns that children are becoming addicted. The Telegraph reported that proposals may ... Date: 14-09-2023 Categories: • Cardiovascular • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening
Respiratory symptoms linked to young people who vape Use of vapes in teenagers and young adults is associated with an increased risk of wheeze, bronchitic symptoms and shortness of breath, a US study has concluded. The findings from a series of surveys, which b ... Date: 18-08-2023 Categories: • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening
Smokers in England to be sent vape 'starter kits' in 'world-first' scheme One million smokers in England will be encouraged to swap cigarettes for vaping using a free ‘vape starter kit’, the Government has announced. The ‘world-first’ scheme will be announced in a speech today by health minister Neil O’Brien, which will also announce a crackdown on underage a ... Date: 11-04-2023 Categories: • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening
‘Strong evidence’ that e-cigarettes most effective way to quit smoking ... ervention at although there was less data on this. It means that for every six in 100 people who quit by using nicotine replacement therapy, eight to twelve would quit by using nicotine-containing vapes, the researchers, said. Compared with behavioural support only or no support, quit rates were more than double with e-cigarettes, the team said. In studies comparing nicotine e-cigarettes to n ... Date: 28-11-2022 Categories: • Mental health, pain and addiction • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening
Nearly one in ten children vaping despite fall in cigarette smoking rates ... ial figures show. NHS Digital statistics published last week showed that 9% of the age group were classified as e-cigarette users in 2021, 50% higher than in 2018 when only 6% of young people were vape users. However, the number of young people taking drugs, drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes has fallen. In 2021, only 3% of pupils were cigarette smokers - down from 5% in 2018 - and those wh ... Date: 14-09-2022 Categories: • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening
Free vape starter kit helped 42% of patients quit smoking in GP-based trial Handing out vape starter kit vouchers on the NHS could help even the heaviest smokers quit for good, with 42% quitting within a month in a trial scheme. A study carried out by researchers from the University of Ea ... Date: 19-08-2022 Categories: • Mental health, pain and addiction • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening
Advice for smokers and vapers Guidance and emerging evidence on risks of smoking, vaping and illness severity of Covid-19 PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NO LONGER RELEVANT AND IS NOT BEING UPDATED BUT HAS BEEN LEFT ON THE SITE FOR REFERENCE PUR ... Date: 04-06-2021 Categories:
What GPs need to know about Covid testing, trials and research ... tom in the acute and recovery phase of Covid-19 infection? This short guide answers the question, with an update on emerging evidence from a consultant neuropsychiatrist. Advice for smokers and vapers This page provides an overview on how to advise patients, based on emerging evidence on risks of smoking, vaping and illness severity of Covid-19. Management of long Covid in primary care ... Date: 29-04-2021 Categories:
MHRA urges GPs to be vigilant in new advice on identifying vaping-related lung injury ... nt a letter this week warning that cases of lung injury should be reported via the Yellow Card Scheme as ‘probably’ related to e-cigarette use if they met all the following criteria: Patient has vaped in the last 30 days There is pulmonary infiltrate, such as opacities on plain film chest x-ray Absence of respiratory infection No evidence of alternative diagnosis (such as malignancy) Cases can b ... Date: 28-01-2020 Categories: • Respiratory • Uncategorised • Vaccinations, prevention and screening
Vaping still safer than smoking, reiterate health officials amidst fresh concerns ... a link between it and the lung disease they have been seeing. The message from UK officials remains that while not without harm, vaping remains far safer than smoking but that non-smokers should not vape. In a statement, Public Health England said: ‘We continue to keep the evidence under review, including all safety and health concerns reported to the e-cigarette regulator, the MHRA. ‘However smo ... Date: 14-11-2019 Categories: • Uncategorised • Vaccinations, prevention and screening
#GPnews: Labour Party claims it would invest in GP services ... edirected in England, compared to an average 249 the previous three winters. This had impacted paramedics' ability to respond to emergencies on time, reports the Guardian. 12:40 Nine in 10 specialist vape shops are going against a voluntary code of conduct which says not to sell their products to people who don't smoke or haven't smoked in the past, an undercover investigation has found. The Royal Soc ... Date: 07-04-2017 Categories: • Uncategorised
Long-term study shows 'e-cigarettes safer than smoking' ... ology, which found e-cigarette users had increases in biochemical markers associated with heart disease, suggesting they still put people at heightened risk compared with people who neither smoke nor vape. Date: 07-02-2017 Categories: • Cancer • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening
#GPnews: Banning e-cigarettes in public places 'could be damaging' Top headlines Hunt brushes off concerns around GP mass resignation Doctors call for patients to self-certify illness up to 14 days 16:30 It's started to pour it down with rain here in central London. ... Date: 23-06-2016 Categories: • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening
E-cigarette use 'associated with reduced smoking cessation', study claims ... in England shows that two out of three smokers who combined e-cigarettes with additional expert support from a local stop smoking service quit successfully and while dual use is a complex issue, many vapers report using an e-cigarette to cut down and ultimately quit.’ Date: 19-01-2016 Categories: • Long-term conditions and prescribing • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening
'Vapers' risking lung disease, DH worried GPs will be overrun by e-cig requests, and Britain living longer in good health Smokers trying to kick the habit by switching to flavoured vapourisers could be risking long-term health problems from unregulated products, as research finds three-quarters of flavourings contains toxic ... Date: 09-12-2015 Categories: • Uncategorised
GP beware – oncology ... se 4 Mr P was diagnosed with large cell anaplastic non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1998, aged 49. He received chemotherapy, vincristine, adriamycin, prednisone, etoposide, cyclophosphamide and bleomycin (vapeC-B), followed by radiotherapy to the para-aortic region and left pelvis. After this, he developed loss of libido. In January 1999, a 3cm tender lump in the left breast was diagnosed as gynaecomastia. ... Date: 21-01-2015 Categories: • Cancer

Masterclass: Smoking and smoking cessation ... ention. Advise that you are always happy to help in the future if they need it and other treatments are available if necessary. Vaping In 2023 4.7 million adults (9.1% of the UK population) vaped. This is an increase from 4.3 million (8.3%) in 2022 and 3.7 million (7.1%) in 2021. Of the 4.7 million in 2023, 4.4 million were ex-smokers or current smokers while 320,000 had never smoked. Whe ... Date: 20-03-2025 Categories: • Mental health, pain and addiction • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening

Kent and Essex to receive largest share of additional smoking cessation funding ... And the new Labour government has continued this intention, introducing a bill to progressively increase the age at which people can buy cigarettes and imposing limits on the sales and marketing of vapes. The Government said the £70m in funding for smoking cessation services was targeted towards local authorities with the most smokers, and allocations were based on the average smoking preva ... Date: 07-01-2025 Categories: • Cardiovascular • Respiratory

NHS England announces relaunch of anti-smoking pill varenicline ... 85,000 people try to stop smoking each year. It will be used as an additional treatment for patients alongside behavioural support such as counselling, and it has ‘been shown to work as well as vapes’ for smoking cessation, according to NHS England. NHSE chief executive Amanda Pritchard will announce the rollout at a speech today, following the relaunched generic product’s approval ... Date: 12-11-2024 Categories: • Cardiovascular • Mental health, pain and addiction • Respiratory

'Historic' legislation to ban smoking laid in Parliament The Government has today introduced ‘historic’ legislation to phase out smoking among young people, extend the smoking ban to outdoor spaces, and clamp down on vaping. The Tobacco and vapes Bill, introduced in Parliament today, will ‘create a smokefree generation’ by banning the sale of tobacco products across the UK to anyone aged 15 or younger this year. Legislation for ... Date: 05-11-2024 Categories: • Cardiovascular • Politics • Respiratory

Single-use vapes to be banned from next summer Single-use disposable vapes will be banned in England and Wales from summer next year, the Government has confirmed. New legislation to prohibit the sales of single-use vapes will come into force on 1 June 2025, ministers s ... Date: 24-10-2024 Categories: • Mental health, pain and addiction • Paediatrics • Respiratory

Vaping among never-smokers increases seven-fold ... ve levelled off since early 2023. The analysis did point to certain risk factors in non-smokers who take up vaping with the sharpest increase in those classed as the heaviest drinkers, of whom 22% vaped It could suggest vaping may be more common among people who would otherwise have gone on to smoke, the researchers said. Overall, the profile of vapers had changed in recent years to be younge ... Date: 16-10-2024 Categories: • Cardiovascular • Respiratory

BMA urges ban on disposable and 'non-tobacco flavoured' vapes The BMA has called for a ban on all disposable and ‘non-tobacco’ flavoured vapes in a bid to stop the ‘epidemic’ of vaping. A new report by the doctors’ union has set out a series of ‘bold actions’ for the Government to take to ‘stem the trend of increased v ... Date: 28-08-2024 Categories: • Mental health, pain and addiction • Respiratory

New Government rubberstamps plans to ban smoking ... the King laid out the Government’s legislative agenda for the coming months including the bills it will introduce to Parliament. The Government has committed to carrying forward the Tobacco and vapes Bill, which originated during Rishi Sunak’s time as Prime Minister. Under the new legislation, the age at which people can buy cigarettes will progressively increase and there will be ... Date: 17-07-2024 Categories: • Cardiovascular • Politics • Respiratory

Smoking rates in pregnancy fall to all-time low ... xpectant mothers.’ Last year, the Government said ICSs would be expected to take a lead on smoking prevention as part of a national ‘smoke free scheme’ which included smokers being offered vapes to help them quit. In February, nearly 400,000 vape kits were set to be sent to smokers in England as part of the swap-to-stop scheme. At least four ICBs and more than 80 localities ... Date: 04-07-2024 Categories: • Cancer • Mental health, pain and addiction • Respiratory

CPD: Key questions on supporting patients to quit tobacco smoking Smoking cessation specialists Dr Alex Bobak and Louise Ross answer key questions on supporting people to quit tobacco smoking, covering the latest on supply issues with medications, the role of e-cigaret ... Date: 30-04-2024 Categories: • Cancer • CPD • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening

MPs vote through smoking ban for future generations ... n smoking for future generations has made progress in Parliament with MPs voting it through last night. The House of Commons vote saw 383 MPs vote in favour and 67 MPs vote against the Tobacco and vapes Bill. The bill will now need to pass a number of other hurdles, including a committee stage and then the same process in the House of Lords. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the smoking ba ... Date: 17-04-2024 Categories: • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening

New ‘vape tax’ to discourage non-smokers from vaping ... discourage non-smokers from taking up vaping’, the government would introduce an excise duty on vaping products from October 2026, and would be consulting on how the tax was designed. ‘Because vapes can also play a positive role in helping people quit smoking, we will introduce a one-off increase in tobacco duty at the same time to maintain the financial incentive to choose vaping over smoking, ... Date: 07-03-2024 Categories: • Vaccinations, prevention and screening

Smokers' views on harms of vaping worsened in recent years ... t perceptions had recovered by late 2020 but then they declined again from 2021 through to 2023 amid growing concern about youth vaping. In January the Government announced it would ban disposable vapes and restrict flavours marketed at children as part of efforts to combat youth vaping across the UK. Last year, researchers declared that nicotine vaping is the most effective among widely av ... Date: 04-03-2024 Categories: • Vaccinations, prevention and screening

Government to ban disposable vape products and marketing appealing to children The Government will ban disposable vapes and restrict flavours marketed at children as part of efforts to combat youth vaping across the UK. In his announcement today, the Prime Minister also reiterated his commitment to creating ... Date: 29-01-2024 Categories: • Paediatrics • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening

Vaping safe to help pregnant women stop smoking, UK research suggests ... t associated with any adverse outcomes. Birth weights of babies born to pregnant women who had stopped smoking and were using either nicotine product were higher than in smokers. While users of vapes and NRT did not differ in any safety outcomes looked at for mothers or babies the researchers did note they did note that the study was only looking at the later stages of pregnancy and all the wome ... Date: 23-01-2024 Categories: • Vaccinations, prevention and screening • Women's health, gynaecology and obstetrics

Labour promises 'healthiest ever' generation of children ... . Other pledges include: Implementing the 9pm watershed for junk food advertising on television and ban paid-for advertising of less healthy foods on online media aimed at children; Banning vapes from being advertised to appeal to children, and make sure that the incremental smoking ban passes through Parliament; Introducing specialist mental health support for children and young people i ... Date: 11-01-2024 Categories: • Gastroenterology and obesity • Mental health, pain and addiction • Paediatrics • Politics

Government proposes measures to crack down on teenage vaping ... al options for cracking down on youth vaping are also included in the consultation after figures form 2023 suggest one in five children has tried it. Measures will need to balance the need to make vapes available to current adult smokers to help them quit while reducing access and appeal for children and teenagers, the consultation document states. Possible changes in law range from limits on ho ... Date: 12-10-2023 Categories: • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening

Prime Minister announces plan for phasing out smoking ... To support current smokers to quit, the Government promised more funding for local ‘stop smoking services’ to help support around 360,000 people to try and quit, including through swapping to vapes. But the Government also said that too many children ‘are becoming addicted at a young age’, which carries a significant risk, and it will consider how to reduce the appeal and availability o ... Date: 04-10-2023 Categories: • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening

Nicotine vaping is most effective smoking cessation aid, say researchers ... effective tools to help them quit, they concluded. Earlier this year, the Government announced that one million smokers in England will be encouraged to swap cigarettes for vaping using a free ‘vape starter kit’. It comes amidst reports that the Government is considering banning disposable vapes over concerns that children are becoming addicted. The Telegraph reported that proposals may ... Date: 14-09-2023 Categories: • Cardiovascular • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening

Respiratory symptoms linked to young people who vape Use of vapes in teenagers and young adults is associated with an increased risk of wheeze, bronchitic symptoms and shortness of breath, a US study has concluded. The findings from a series of surveys, which b ... Date: 18-08-2023 Categories: • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening

Smokers in England to be sent vape 'starter kits' in 'world-first' scheme One million smokers in England will be encouraged to swap cigarettes for vaping using a free ‘vape starter kit’, the Government has announced. The ‘world-first’ scheme will be announced in a speech today by health minister Neil O’Brien, which will also announce a crackdown on underage a ... Date: 11-04-2023 Categories: • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening

‘Strong evidence’ that e-cigarettes most effective way to quit smoking ... ervention at although there was less data on this. It means that for every six in 100 people who quit by using nicotine replacement therapy, eight to twelve would quit by using nicotine-containing vapes, the researchers, said. Compared with behavioural support only or no support, quit rates were more than double with e-cigarettes, the team said. In studies comparing nicotine e-cigarettes to n ... Date: 28-11-2022 Categories: • Mental health, pain and addiction • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening

Nearly one in ten children vaping despite fall in cigarette smoking rates ... ial figures show. NHS Digital statistics published last week showed that 9% of the age group were classified as e-cigarette users in 2021, 50% higher than in 2018 when only 6% of young people were vape users. However, the number of young people taking drugs, drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes has fallen. In 2021, only 3% of pupils were cigarette smokers - down from 5% in 2018 - and those wh ... Date: 14-09-2022 Categories: • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening

Free vape starter kit helped 42% of patients quit smoking in GP-based trial Handing out vape starter kit vouchers on the NHS could help even the heaviest smokers quit for good, with 42% quitting within a month in a trial scheme. A study carried out by researchers from the University of Ea ... Date: 19-08-2022 Categories: • Mental health, pain and addiction • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening

Advice for smokers and vapers Guidance and emerging evidence on risks of smoking, vaping and illness severity of Covid-19 PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NO LONGER RELEVANT AND IS NOT BEING UPDATED BUT HAS BEEN LEFT ON THE SITE FOR REFERENCE PUR ... Date: 04-06-2021 Categories:

What GPs need to know about Covid testing, trials and research ... tom in the acute and recovery phase of Covid-19 infection? This short guide answers the question, with an update on emerging evidence from a consultant neuropsychiatrist. Advice for smokers and vapers This page provides an overview on how to advise patients, based on emerging evidence on risks of smoking, vaping and illness severity of Covid-19. Management of long Covid in primary care ... Date: 29-04-2021 Categories:

MHRA urges GPs to be vigilant in new advice on identifying vaping-related lung injury ... nt a letter this week warning that cases of lung injury should be reported via the Yellow Card Scheme as ‘probably’ related to e-cigarette use if they met all the following criteria: Patient has vaped in the last 30 days There is pulmonary infiltrate, such as opacities on plain film chest x-ray Absence of respiratory infection No evidence of alternative diagnosis (such as malignancy) Cases can b ... Date: 28-01-2020 Categories: • Respiratory • Uncategorised • Vaccinations, prevention and screening

Vaping still safer than smoking, reiterate health officials amidst fresh concerns ... a link between it and the lung disease they have been seeing. The message from UK officials remains that while not without harm, vaping remains far safer than smoking but that non-smokers should not vape. In a statement, Public Health England said: ‘We continue to keep the evidence under review, including all safety and health concerns reported to the e-cigarette regulator, the MHRA. ‘However smo ... Date: 14-11-2019 Categories: • Uncategorised • Vaccinations, prevention and screening

#GPnews: Labour Party claims it would invest in GP services ... edirected in England, compared to an average 249 the previous three winters. This had impacted paramedics' ability to respond to emergencies on time, reports the Guardian. 12:40 Nine in 10 specialist vape shops are going against a voluntary code of conduct which says not to sell their products to people who don't smoke or haven't smoked in the past, an undercover investigation has found. The Royal Soc ... Date: 07-04-2017 Categories: • Uncategorised

Long-term study shows 'e-cigarettes safer than smoking' ... ology, which found e-cigarette users had increases in biochemical markers associated with heart disease, suggesting they still put people at heightened risk compared with people who neither smoke nor vape. Date: 07-02-2017 Categories: • Cancer • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening

#GPnews: Banning e-cigarettes in public places 'could be damaging' Top headlines Hunt brushes off concerns around GP mass resignation Doctors call for patients to self-certify illness up to 14 days 16:30 It's started to pour it down with rain here in central London. ... Date: 23-06-2016 Categories: • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening

E-cigarette use 'associated with reduced smoking cessation', study claims ... in England shows that two out of three smokers who combined e-cigarettes with additional expert support from a local stop smoking service quit successfully and while dual use is a complex issue, many vapers report using an e-cigarette to cut down and ultimately quit.’ Date: 19-01-2016 Categories: • Long-term conditions and prescribing • Respiratory • Vaccinations, prevention and screening

'Vapers' risking lung disease, DH worried GPs will be overrun by e-cig requests, and Britain living longer in good health Smokers trying to kick the habit by switching to flavoured vapourisers could be risking long-term health problems from unregulated products, as research finds three-quarters of flavourings contains toxic ... Date: 09-12-2015 Categories: • Uncategorised

GP beware – oncology ... se 4 Mr P was diagnosed with large cell anaplastic non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1998, aged 49. He received chemotherapy, vincristine, adriamycin, prednisone, etoposide, cyclophosphamide and bleomycin (vapeC-B), followed by radiotherapy to the para-aortic region and left pelvis. After this, he developed loss of libido. In January 1999, a 3cm tender lump in the left breast was diagnosed as gynaecomastia. ... Date: 21-01-2015 Categories: • Cancer

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