Staff in hospital emergency departments will give e-cigarette starter packs to smokers as part of a new research project to help people quit.
The study, which is funded by the National Institute for Health Research, will run over 30 months across five hospitals in England and Scotland.
“Attending the emergency department offers a valuable opportunity for people to be supported to quit smoking”
Ian Pope
Research nurses will take part in the screening and recruitment of patients, while the intervention itself will be delivered by a trained smoking cessation advisor, said those behind the initiative.
The study, which is being run by the Norwich Clinical Trials Unit at the University of East Anglia, aims to start recruiting volunteers in the autumn.
Two women have been left injured after a serious crash on the B1108
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Two women have been left injured after a serious crash on the B1108.
Two women have been left injured after a serious crash on the B1108
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The crash, which closed the B1108 at Hingham for several hours, saw the East of England Ambulance Service send two ambulances, an ambulance officer and the air ambulance following a call at 12.10pm.
The driver of the Ford, a woman in her 40s, was taken to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital with serious, but not life-threatening, injuries while the Toyota driver was also taken to hospital and treated for minor injuries.
Lucy Wilson went under the knife on January 22, 2020, and according to the hospital’s Root Cause Analysis report, by the following morning “it became clear there had been a biliary injury with large volumes of bile draining”.
So doctors used a tiny camera on a tube - an endoscope - to navigate through the bile duct to check it was okay, but the procedure could not be completed as expected because the bile duct had been severed.
The report states: “Despite a conversation between Surgeon B [Valero] and Gastroenterologist A straight after the procedure, the surgical team regarded the result as a ‘failed ERCP’ rather than appreciating the fact that the procedure had been successful and had indeed diagnosed complete transection of the bile duct.”
A teenager remains in a serious condition at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital after a collision between a motorbike and a car on Hellesdon Road.
A teenager remains in a serious condition at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital after a collision between a motorbike and a car on Hellesdon Road.