JSNA
The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) is how a council and a Primary Care Trust (PCT) work together to analyse the health and wellbeing needs of their local area. According to the Department of Health guidance, JSNAs should be underpinned by:
"community engagement: actively engaging with communities, patients, service users, carers, and providers including the third and private sectors to develop a full understanding of needs, with a particular focus on the views of vulnerable groups"
The JSNA is a shared resource for commissioners and service providers, and aims to inform effective commissioning by:
- Providing data analysis;
- Defining where inequalities exist; and
- Using local knowledge together with evidence of effectiveness of interventions.
Briefing on influencing JSNAs by Regional Voices (the grouping of VONNE equivalents in all the English regions)
This resource provides links to the JSNAs in all the local authorities, so you can review what is happening in your local area, whether there is data you can contribute to the JSNA, e.g. health inequalities that you're aware of that may have been missed from the Assessment, to influence future commissioning. Commissioners are currently updating their JSNAs.
South of Tyne (still to locate)
Tees Valley JSNAs (resources for all the councils and PCTs in Tees Valley- Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees can be accessed through one website)
