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Global Network members and associates

Membership of the Global Network is open to all healthcare services globally.

Healthcare services may join on their own or as part of a national or regional network.

Formation of national/regional networks is a key strategy by which the Global Network supports healthcare services and facilitates continuous improvement. Reflecting the value of networking and sharing of local experience, networks have been established across various countries.

Click on the name of a country below to view more information about national /regional networks and single members. The Global Network encourages healthcare services to make contact with their local network to benefit from these existing structures. For contact details click on the website links provided.

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Australia

Victorian Network of Smokefree Healthcare Services (VNSHS)

Joined: 2011

Number of healthcare service members: 31

Number of GOLD Forum members: 3

Coordinating Institution/Organisation: Project Health / Barwon Health

Network Director/Coordinator: Dr Rudi Gasser

Contact name: Fiona Landgren

Contact email: smokefreevictoria[at]projecthealth.com.au

Website: www.smokefreevictoria.com.au

Austria

Austrian Network Health Promoting Hospitals & Healthcare Institution (ONGKG Sektion Rauchfrei)

Joined: 2011

Number of healthcare service members: 24

Number of GOLD Forum members: 1

Coordinating Institution/Organisation: Austrian Network of Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Care Institutions (ONGKG)

Network Director/Coordinator: Angelika Kresnik

Contact name: Angelika Kresnik

Contact email: angelika.kresni[at]kabeg.at

Website: http://www.ongkg.at/

Belgium

Réseu francophone belge des hôpitax sans tabac

Joined: 2009

Number of healthcare service members: 5

Coordinating Institution/Organisation: FARES Funds against respiratory diseases

Network Director/Coordinator: Jacques Dumont

Contact name: Jacques Dumont

Contact email: jacques.dumon[at]fares.be

Website: http://www.hopitalsanstabac.be/

China

Shuyang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Joined: 2019

Contact name: Rui-ling Guo

Contact email: 2860146439[at]qq.com / anakin0938[at]qq.com

Website: http://www.syzyyy.cn

XinXiang Tongmeng Hospital

Joined: 2020

Contact name: Dr Chuan Tian

Contact email: 18124595[at]qq.com

Website: https://www.x xtmyy.cn/index.shtml

Czech Republic

Národní sítě nemocnic a zdravotnických zařízení bez tabáku

Joined: 2017

Number of healthcare service members: 10

Coordinating Institution/Organisation: Ministry of Health of The Czech Republic

Network Director/Coordinator: Lenka Stepankova

Contact name: Veronika Stejskalová

Contact email: veronika.stejskalova[at]mzcr.cz

Website: www.slzt.cz/ / http://www.mzcr.cz/KvalitaABezpeci/obsah/nekuracke-nemocnice-a-zdravotnicka-zarizeni_3778_29.html

Estonia

Eesti tervist edendavate haiglate ja terviseteenuste võrgustik (Estonian HPH Network of Tobacco Free Hospitals and Healthcare Services)

Joined: 2005

Number of healthcare service members: 6

Coordinating Institution/Organisation: Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tartu, Estonia

Network Director/Coordinator: Dr Kaja Põlluste

Contact name: Jane Freimann

Contact email: jane.freimann[at]kliinikum.ee

Website: www.tai.ee

Finland

Suomen savuton terveydenhuolto verkosto (Finnish Smokeless Hospital Network)

Joined: 2009

Number of healthcare service members: 17

Coordinating Institution/Organisation: Finnish Health Promotion Hospitals (HPH)

Network Director/Coordinator: Dr Tuula Vasankari

Contact name: Patrick Sandstrom

Contact email: patrick.sandstrom[at]filha.fi

Website: www.steso.fi

France

Réseau des établissements de santé pour la prévention de la toxicomanie (RESPADD)

Joined: 1999

Number of healthcare service members: 670

Coordinating Institution/Organisation: RESPADD

Network Director/Coordinator: Nicolas Bonnet

Contact name: Nicolas Bonnet

Contact email: nicolas.bonnet[at]respadd.org

Website: www.respadd.org

Germany

Deutsches Netz Rauchfreier Krankenhäuser & Gesundheitseinrichtungen (DNRfK)

Joined: 2009

Number of healthcare service members: (not available)

Number of GOLD Forum members: 3

Coordinating Institution/Organisation: German Network for Tobacco Free Healthcare Services

Network Director/Coordinator: Christa Rustler

Contact name: Christa Rustler

Contact email: rustler[at]rauchfrei-plus.de

Website: http://www.dnrfk.de/

Greece

General Hospital of Patras "Agios Andreas"

Joined: 2018

Contact name: Maria Zafiropoulou

Contact email: marozafir[at]gmail.com

Level of membership: Silver

Website: www.agandreashosp.gr/

Ireland

Irish GNTH Network

Joined: 2001

Number of healthcare service members: 20

Number of GOLD Forum members: 1

Coordinating Institution/Organisation: Tobacco Free Ireland Programme, Health Service Executive

Network Director/Coordinator: Aine Buggy

Contact name: Aine Buggy

Contact email: aine.buggy[at]hse.ie

Website: http://www.hse.ie/eng/about/Who/TobaccoControl/campus/

Netherlands

Dutch Network For Tobacco Free Health Care Services (Nederlands Netwerk voor Rookvrije Zorgorganisaties)

Joined: 2018

Number of healthcare service members: 8

Coordinating Institution/Organisation:

Network Director/Coordinator: Dr Robert C. van de Graaf

Contact name: Rianne Kasander

Contact email: rkasander[at]verslavingskundenederla nd.nl

Norway

The Southcoast Associated Hospitals (Individual member)

Joined: 2011

Coordinating Institution/Organisation: HPH Network Norway

Contact name: Åse Karine Rudd

Contact email: Ase.Karine.Ruud[at]SShf.no

South Korea

GNTH-Korea Network (한국금연병원네트워크)

Joined: 2013

Number of healthcare service members: 7

Number of GOLD Forum members: 1

Coordinating Institution/Organisation: Korea HPH Network

Network Director/Coordinator: Dr Dongwon Lee

Contact name: Dongwon Lee

Contact email: hl2xpn[at]hanmail.net

Website: www.ensh.kr

Spain

The Andalusian Network of Smoke-Free Hospitals & Health Services (RAHLH)

Joined: 2010

Number of healthcare service members: 460

Coordinating Institution/Organisation: Plan Integral de Tabaquismo de Andalucía (PITA) - Comprehensive Tobacco Action Plan for Andalusia

Network Director/Coordinator: Daniel J. López Vega

Contact name: Ana María Ruíz Bernal

Contact email: aurora.martinez.exts[at]juntadeandalucia.es

Website: www.pitablog.es

Aragonese Network of Smoke free Hospitals & Health Services

Joined: 2014

Number of healthcare service members: 5

Contact name: Marta Alquézar Fernández

Contact email: malquezarf[at]gmail.com

Website: no public website

Hospital General Universitario de Elche

Joined: 2017

Contact name: Mayka Romero

Contact email: subdiremed_elx[at]gva.es

Website: www.elche.san.gva.es

Hospital Universitario De Burgos (Individual member)

Joined: 2013

Contact name: Lourdes Lázaro

Contact email: mlazaro[at]saludcastillayleon.es

Level of membership: Member

Website: https://www.saludcastillayleon.es//CABurgos/es/complejo-hospitalario-burgos/hospital-universitario-burgos

Red Asturiana de Hospitales libres de Humo

Joined: 2012

Number of healthcare service members: (not available)

Coordinating Institution/Organisation: (not available)

Network Director/Coordinator: Manuel Angel Martínez Muñiz

Contact name: Manuel Angel Martínez Muñiz

Contact email: manuelangel.martinez[at]sespa.princast.es

Website: Not currently available

Red Cántabra de Centros Sanitarios Sin Humo

Joined: 2015

Number of healthcare service members: 15

Coordinating Institution/Organisation: Public Health Department of the Cantabria’s Government

Network Director/Coordinator: Dr Gutierrez Luis

Contact name: Luis Gutierrez Bardeci

Contact email: redsinhumo[at]gmail.com

Website: http://www.saludcantabria.es/index.php?page=rccssh0

Red de Hospitales Libres de Tabaco de la Región de Murcia

Joined: 2005

Number of healthcare service members: 14

Coordinating Institution/Organisation: Servicio de Promoción de Salud y Educación para la Salud. Dirección General de Salud Pública. Consejería de Sanidad.

Network Director/Coordinator: Adelaida Lozano

Contact name: Adelaida Lozano

Contact email: adelaida.lozano[at]carm.es

Website: http://www.murciasalud.es/redhospitaleslibrestabaco

Red Basque Health Organizations Libres de Humo / Smoke-Free Health Organization Network

Joined: 2019

Number of healthcare service members: 7

Coordinating Institution/Organisation: OSAKIDETZA Basque Public Health Service

Network Director/Coordinator: María Luz Peña González

Contact name: María Luz Peña González

Contact email: marialuz.penagonzalez[at]osakidetza.net

Website: Not currently available

Xarxa Catalana d'Hospitals sense Fum - Catalan Network of Smokefree Hospitals.

Joined: 1999

Number of healthcare service members: 83

Number of GOLD Forum members: 8

Coordinating Institution/Organisation: Tobacco Control Unit/Catalan Institute of Oncology

Network Coordinator: Dr Esteve Fernández

Contact name: Laura Antón

Contact email: lanton[at]iconcologia.net

Website: www.xchsf.cat

Sweden

Nätverket Hälsofrämjande hälso- och sjukvård

Joined: 2009

Number of healthcare service members: 62

Number of GOLD Forum members: 1

Coordinating Institution/Organisation: HFS Sweden (HPH Network Sweden)

Network Director/Coordinator: Mattias Jonsson

Contact name: Mattias Jonsson

Contact email: infohfsnatverket[at]regionostergotland.se

Website: Not currently available

Switzerland

The Forum Tobacco Prevention and Treatment of Tobacco Addiction in Health Care Services Switzerland (FTGS)

Joined: 2013

Number of healthcare service members: 20

Coordinating Institution/Organisation: FTGS Forum Tabakprävention und Behandlung der Tabakabhängigkeit in Gesundheitsinstitutionen Schweiz

Network Director/Coordinator: Susann Koalick

Contact name: Susann Koalick

Contact email: susann.koalick[at]ftgs.ch

Website: http://www.ftgs.ch/

Taiwan

中華民國衛生福利部國民健康署

- Taiwan Network of Tobacco-free Hospitals.

Joined: 2011

Number of healthcare service members: 209

Number of GOLD Forum members: 15

Coordinating Institution/Organisation: 中華民國衛生福利部國民健康署 / Health Promotion Administration, Ministry of Health & Welfare, R.O.C. (Taiwan)

Network Director/Coordinator: Ying-Wei Wang

Contact name: Maxwell Tsai

Contact email: maxwell7549[at]hpa.gov.tw

Website: Not currently available

USA

University of Kansas Hospital/Medical Center

Joined: 2014

Contact name: Kimber Richter or Laura Mussulman

Contact email: krichter[at]kumc.edu / lmussulman[at]kumc.edu

Website: http://www.kansashealthsystem.com/

Associate members

While the membership of the Global Network is comprised of healthcare services, we value and welcome the involvement of other organisations and individuals who support the work of the Global Network and wish to collaborate towards achievement of shared goals. Associate membership is available to:

public health organisations, academic institutions or Non Government Organisations (NGO’s)
Individual health professionals, academics or other interested parties

Public organisations who coordinate a national/regional network are automatically considered associate members. For contact details please see the members list above.