Burning our money to ASH

State-funded prohibitionist pressure group Action on Smoking and Health are advertising an unusual vacancy.

 

NHS Strategic Lead

 

This a senior role within public health charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) to engage the NHS in action to tackle smoking.

This leadership role will seek to engage NHS leaders across prevention and health inequalities programmes as part of helping to secure the Government’s vision of smokefree England by 2030. It will develop and galvanise a professional network involved in delivering support and develop tools and resources to support system change.

 

'Galvanising a professional network to support system change' is blob-speak for getting various arms of the state to lobby the government.

It's nice work if you can get it. The salary is advertised at £50,000 to £60,000. Tell me more! 

This a senior role within public health charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) to engage the NHS in action to tackle smoking. ASH is public health charity established by the Royal College of Physicians, working to end the harms from smoking. We campaign to secure evidence-based policy change and work with public sector and others to support policy implementation. This role is to deliver on an NHS England funded project.

So the supposedly cash-strapped NHS is paying ASH to employ someone to tell the NHS to take a tougher line on smoking, even though the NHS is one of the most anti-smoking institutions in the world and ASH claims that it doesn't use taxpayers' money to lobby?

I've said it before and I'll say it again: 'Public health' is a bare-faced racket.