No one left behind: tobacco dependency treatment in a group with multiple and complex needs

NENCB ICB has funded an innovative project, the ‘HIVE’ team, to support patients with multiple and complex needs in having equitable access to, experience, and outcomes on our clinical pathways. The team has found a high prevalence of tobacco dependency in the cohort and will share the details underpinning high levels of engagement and positive outcomes with case studies and live outcome data.

The HIVE Programme brings together local clinical knowledge with insight from people with lived experience and the expertise of local authority and community services. The aim is simple yet ambitious: to improve access, experience, and outcomes for those who are often overlooked by traditional services. The work has initially focused on people with respiratory conditions referred through urgent cancer pathways. More than half of those supported are living in our most deprived communities or are in unstable housing, suffer with poor mental health or learning disabilities/ neurodivergence, or are living with addiction or substance dependence.