Mim Scott

Public Health Improvement Manager

Wigan Council

Biography

Mim has built an extensive public health career in smoking cessation and tobacco control, with over 23 years’ experience. Starting with The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, where she led on workplace initiatives, focusing particularly on routine and manual enterprises. Through the Look After Your Lungs project, Mim engaged with employees to raise awareness about lung health and provide support for quitting smoking. Her efforts extended both locally and regionally. Her work in Tower Hamlets and North Staffordshire served as a model for similar initiatives.

Mim moved to City Health Care Partnership CIC, where she served as the North-West Health Improvement Operations Manager for Knowsley, St Helens and Wigan. In this role, Mim played a key part in re-shaping and improving various public health services including smoking cessation, Tier 2 weight management, mental wellbeing, alcohol reduction, and physical activity programmes. Mim’s portfolio also includes social prescribing link workers.

A presentation on how the Smoke Free Wigan Partnership wanted to expand the smoking cessation offer to make it more accessible to population groups with high smoking prevalence such as people in recovery, people being supported by homelessness services. Targeting those who rarely use community smoking cessation services by working in collaboration with local Voluntary, Community, Faith & Social Enterprise Sector (VCFSE) organisations. The VCFSE organisations included BAC O’Connor, Rebuild with Hope, Well Women, The Brick and the PaSH Partnership. PaSH is a collaboration between BHA for Equality, George House Trust, and LGBT Foundation. The Local Authority Stop Smoking Service is supporting the local organisations by upskilling staff, best placed to work with the target populations on smoking cessation as they have existing relationships and work from places where people are already being supported.