WELCOME TO SCaH 2025 - HYBRID

The Smoking Cessation & Health Conference (SCaH) is the only dedicated national event for professionals working in smoking cessation and related services in the UK, that focuses on how to reduce the burden of smoking related death and disease for all sections of the population.

We are delighted that SCAH and all of our speakers are able to come back in-person to York on the 5th March 2025.  Following the success of the virtual SCAH conference in 2021, and our hybrid conference in 2023 we have planned the conference to be hybrid again, offering an exciting interactive virtual experience for those that are not able to join us in person. This year’s over-arching theme is ‘The End of Smoking: Thinking Big’.

The inaugural Smoking Cessation and Health (SCaH) conference was held in February 2020, as a one day live event in Birmingham. Following COVID restrictions the 2021 conference was held virtually in June 2021. In 2023 we ran our first hybrid conference in Manchester.  We were overwhelmed with the response.  SCaH 2021 welcomed over 1000 delegates and SCaH 2023 just over 400 delegates. The Programme hosted local and national speakers including Public Health England and NHS England and welcomed stakeholders from across  smoking cessation fields.

From commissioners to practitioners and researchers to policy makers, SCaH set out with a mission to provide the practical tools and an opportunity to share experiences that will drive down smoking rates and achieve the Smokefree ambition of a 5% smoking prevalence by 2030.

Smokefree 2030 – are you ready?

In order to accelerate progress towards Smokefree 2030, we need to continue to find the innovative solutions to reach each and every smoker.  The emergence of new technologies from digital behavioural support platforms and reduced risk nicotine products, such as e-cigarettes, create new learning opportunities for us and the ability to reach the right people at the right time, with the right tools.  This is about prevention at scale and pace to save 500,000 lives over the next decade. We hope you share our ambition and are able to join us for SCaH 2025.

Testimonials from SCaH 2023 - Hybrid

It was lovely to attend the conference, meet people in person instead on the screen only. Exchange information – brilliant, possibility to make contacts and exchange experience. Food was lovely.

Excellent, informative and event, which left me feeling energised and ready for action, it will be in my diary for the future.

“I found it the most informative, motivating and energising smoking cessation conference that I have been too in a very long time. “

It really was an exceptional conference, I thoroughly enjoyed it and can’t wait for the next one.

It really was an exceptional conference, I thoroughly enjoyed it and can’t wait for the next one.


   

ORGANISED BY

ORGANISED BY

SPEAKERS/CHAIRS 2025

Dr Gareth Jones

Consultant Respiratory Medicine, Clinic Lead CURE Liverpool, Clinical Lead Tobacco Control

Liverpool University Hospital Foundation Trust (LUHFT), CURE Liverpool, Cheshire & Merseyside Cancer Alliance 

Jane Coyne

Programme Director

National Smokefree Pregnancy Incentive Scheme

Ailsa Rutter

Director

Fresh and Balance

Dr Sophia Papadakis

Academic and Health Systems Consultant

National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT)

Leanne Sparks

Senior Prevention Programme Manager

NHS South Yorkshire ICB

Fran Franklin

Project Manager

NHS Greater Manchester

Prof Andrew Furber OBE

Regional Director of Public Health

North West OHID

Rob Hebdon

National Pharmacy Integration Lead

NHS England

Martin Dockrell

Formerly Tobacco Control Lead at DHSC and PHE. Retired

Prof Rachael Murray

Professor of Population Health

The University of Nottingham

Heidi Croucher

Dorset Integrated Care System Treating Tobacco Dependency Programme Manager, Lead Implementation Midwife, NHS England

Public Health Dorset

Amy Watling-Cash

Specialist Wellbeing & Public Health Officer

Essex County Council Wellbeing & Public Health Team

Patricia Rodrigues

Project Coordinator & Smoking Cessation Advisor 

Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust (LUHFT)

Richard Boden

Deputy Director Tobacco and Vaping Policy and Legislation

Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Department of Health and Social Care

Dr Jasmine Khouja

Senior Research Associate

University of Bristol

Hanna Ellison

Programme Manager, Tobacco Prevention Team

NHS England

Kate Heighway

Lead Midwife Public Health

Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Trust

Dr Kirstie Soar

Trial Manager

London South Bank University

Prof Caitlin Notley

Director – Lifespan Health Research Centre and Professor of Addiction Sciences

Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia

Joanna Feeney

Stop Smoking System Strategic Manager

Fresh & Balance

Mary Yates

Clinical Expert, National Tobacco Dependence Trainer

Charlotte Ranchordas

Healthy Hospital Programme Manager

Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

Emma Rossi

Service Manager

LiveWell Dorset, Public Health Dorset

Sue Mountain

Smokefree Campaigner

Florence Aku

Treating Tobacco Dependency Team Lead for Mental Health

Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust

Mim Scott

Public Health Improvement Manager

Wigan Council

Professor Lynne Dawkins

Professor of Nicotine and Tobacco Studies

London South Bank University

Sarah Hepworth

Health Improvement Principal, Sheffield Tobacco Control Strategy Lead

Sheffield City Council

Dr Pippa Belderson

Senior Research Associate

University of East Anglia

Hazel Cheeseman

Chief Executive

ASH (Action on Smoking & Health)

Dr Debbie Robson, RMN, PHD

Senior Lecturer in Tobacco Harm Reduction

King's College London

Mandy Hancock

Programme Manager Treating Tobacco Dependency

NHS Greater Manchester 

Dr David Crane

Founder

Smoke Free

Martin Lever

Tobacco Health Improvement Lead, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, Freelance Consultant Trainer

NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Andrea Crossfield

Population Health Policy and Strategy Consultant

Champs Public Health Collaborative

Scott Crosby

Associate Director, Centre for Excellence in Tobacco Control

NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership

Rachel McIlvenna

Smokefree NHS Strategic Manager

North East and North Cumbria ICB

Tom Liddicoat

Health Improvement Practitioner

Healthy Cornwall / Cornwall Council

Rebecca Lim

Lead Midwife for Smoking in Pregnancy

Liverpool Womens NHS Foundation Trust

Andy Lloyd

Head of Media and Communications

Fresh and Balance

Dr Paul Cilia La Corte

Senior Programme Manager - Prevention

NHS England

Hilary Wareing

Director of iPiP

Improving Performance in Practice

Prof Sanjay Agrawal

Consultant in Respiratory & Intensive Care Medicine, National Specialty Adviser for Tobacco NHSE

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

  • TTD Practitioners as part of the Long Term Plan
  • Policymakers
  • Scientific / Research / Academic communities
  • Primary & secondary care commissioners
  • Medical/healthcare practitioners
  • Public health professionals
  • Stop smoking specialist services

KEY THEMES

  • Licensed pharmacotherapy and tools for the job
  • Non medicalised alternatives to smoking
  • Bridging the gap in health inequalities and Core20PLUS5
  • “The Long Term Plan” embedding services post national funding to reach a smokefree 2030
  • No artificial division with mental and physical health