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** 27 May 2021
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** UK
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** Hancock: ICSs to be rated on safety, integration and leadership (#1)
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** Max Mosley obituary (#2)
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** Oxfordshire reacts to council’s smokefree strategy (#3)
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** International
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** French films show far too much smoking, campaigners say (#4)
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** China: Over a million people die every year due to smoking (#5)
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** UK
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** Safety and quality, as well as integration and leadership, will be a “core focus” for the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) ratings of integrated care systems (ICSs), health secretary Matt Hancock has indicated.
In a letter to health and social care committee chair Jeremy Hunt, Mr Hancock said the Department of Health and Social Care is working with the CQC and NHS England to develop “detailed proposals” on how ICSs will be regulated. The CQC is due to be given “new powers” to rate ICSs under the government’s proposed health and social care bill.
In the letter, Mr Hancock said: “I see these new powers for the CQC as an excellent opportunity not only to inform the public about the quality of health and care in their area, but also as a way to review progress against our aspirations for delivering better, more joined-up care across integrated care systems. I note your recommendation that quality and safety of care should be a core domain of the CQC reviews and would like to assure you that, alongside integration and leadership, quality and safety will be a core focus when rating integrated care systems.”
Mr Hancock added: “We will continue to seek to ensure that the new review mechanism and rating system adds value and improvement at each stage while avoiding introducing duplication or unnecessary regulatory burdens into the system.”
Source: Health Service Journal, 25 May 2021
See also: Letter to Health and Social Committee Chair Jeremy Hunt ([link removed] )
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** The view that politics should be kept out of sport would never have cut any ice with Max Mosley, who has died aged 81. As the son of the British Union of Fascists’ leader, Sir Oswald Mosley, he was brought up in a notoriously political household during the 1940s and 50s, and in his 20s was involved in his father’s postwar Union Movement.
After being drawn into motor racing in the early 60s, he demonstrated that sport could be politics continued by other means. He rose to the presidency of the sport’s governing body, the FIA, but while he was admired for his clarity of mind and intellect, he was feared for the ruthlessness with which he would manipulate events to suit himself and crush his opponents.
The issue of tobacco sponsorship in Formula One naturally fell within his purview, and in 1997 he fought to delay the EU’s proposed ban on tobacco advertising to give Formula One time to find new sources of funding. He managed this without provoking the kind of furore that surrounded Ecclestone’s £1m donation to the Labour party, which was widely criticised as a bid to pre-empt the tobacco ban in the UK.
Source: The Guardian, 24 May 2021
See also: Blair intervened over F1 tobacco ban exemption, documents show ([link removed])
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** A strategy that hopes to make Oxfordshire the first “smokefree” county in England by 2025 is aiming to discourage workplace smoking areas. Plans for how to “deliver a smokefree Oxfordshire” are being considered later this week.
Oxford Mail asked readers on Facebook whether a cut to smoke breaks at workplaces is fair.
Gary Franks said: “It would be nice not to have to walk through clouds of smoke as you walk into a building.”
Ian Clarke said: “I chose to start smoking, chose to continue smoking, then chose to stop smoking. Stopping smoking is achievable for all, although for some, I accept it can be difficult. Smoking generates significant tax revenue to the Government, but not enough to fund the additional NHS resources needed to deliver treatments for disease and cancer. Apologies to you smokers out there, but I think we should raise tax revenues on smoking products.”
Karen Kaz Musilova’ said: “I’m a smoker myself, and I actually agree with this. This would make trying to quit easier.”
Source: Oxford Mail, 26 May 2021
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** International
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** A new study found that smoking features in nearly all of France’s films. Smoking gets 2.6 minutes of screen time on average per film - the equivalent of six adverts, the French League Against Cancer found.
“Tobacco remains quasi-ubiquitous in French films,” the League says. The League argues that exposure glamorises smoking and calls for new measures to cut down the amount shown in movies. A poll among French young people who accompanied the survey found that nearly 60% considered such scenes to promote smoking.
Yama Dimirova, the study author, said: “Even though we have a very strong prevention programme, we still have a lot of tobacco smoking in movies. So, films depict more smoking than in real life [and] we know this has a direct impact on the normalisation of tobacco smoking.” She says the French government needs to “regulate” the amount of smoking shown on screen by cutting public subsidies for movies that show smoking “on purpose.”
Dimirova concluded by saying: “We do not want to interfere in cultural creation, but we do not believe that tobacco smoking adds to the character of movies.”
Source: BBC, 26 May 2021
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** A recent report on the health hazards of smoking in China shows that over 1 million people die of tobacco-related diseases every year, and that this will rise to 2 million per year by 2030 and 3 million by 2050.
The report, jointly released by China’s National Health Commission (NHC) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) China Office at a press conference, notes that there are currently more than 300 million cigarette smokers in the country. About 26.6% of Chinese people aged 15 and above are smokers, and of this age group, more than half of men smoke cigarettes.
Chen De, vice president of Shanghai Smoking Control Association, said: “Compared with the current base of smokers in China, the figure of people who died from tobacco-related diseases every year is still a small proportion. But based on the huge total number of smokers who will probably eventually get sick or die due to smoking-related causes, this number will increase in the next few years, even though we have been implementing nationwide control measures on smoking.”
Chen said it was therefore vital to publicise the hazards of smoking among adolescents to bring down the number of people who die of tobacco-related diseases, in addition to other tobacco control measures.
Source: Global Times, 26 May 2021
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