Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
(JSNA) 2012 - 2016 Update
Jan Walker
27th September 2011
JSNA - A Springboard for Action
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Provides a comprehensive analysis of
local current and future needs for adults
and children to inform commissioning
Supports effective decision-making
Ensures efficient use of limited public
resources
Makes sure services deliver public value
by promoting the wellbeing of individuals,
families and communities
Policy Context
• Statutory duty on upper-tier local
authorities and local NHS since 2007
• Key part of health and social care reform
• Under the Health and Social Care Bill
Health and Wellbeing boards will be
required to produce a JSNA and a Joint
Health and Wellbeing Strategy that will
drive all health and wellbeing strategic
commissioning
Elements of the JSNA
• Population data - growth, migration, birth,
gender, age, ethnicity
• Social and place - housing environment,
employment, educational attainment, benefit
uptake, vulnerable groups, crime and disorder
and community cohesion
• Lifestyle determinants of health - exercise,
smoking, diet, alcohol, drug abuse
Elements of the JSNA
• Epidemiology - mortality, life expectancy, longterm conditions, disease prevalence,
immunisation uptake rates
• Service access and utilisation - emergency
admissions, vulnerable groups receiving care,
screening uptake, transport, children’s centres
and welfare rights
• Evidence of effectiveness - good practice,
literature reviews, National Institute for Health
and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines and
quality standards
Elements of the JSNA
• Other local data - Information from the
voluntary sector, qualitative sources, service
providers, the private sector
• Community perspectives – the views,
expectations, perceptions and experiences of
service users and local communities about what
contributes to good health.
Progress to Date
• Agreed timescale for production of 20122016 JSNA by April 2012
• JSNA Steering Group set up with crosscutting membership from council Health
and voluntary sectors
• Extensive Data collection exercise
underway
• Vision for Trafford JSNA developed
Life Course Approach
• Pre-conception & Birth (smoking during pregnancy, birth
& fertility rates, Infant mortality, etc)
• Children (Access to Sure Start, Obesity, Educational
Attainment, Looked After Children, etc)
• Young People (Sexual Health, Teen Pregnancy, Skills &
Employment, Alcohol/Substance Abuse, etc)
• Working Age Adults (Deprivation, Housing, Mental
Health, Health Screening, etc)
• Getting Older (Demographics, Fuel Poverty / Winter
Deaths, Dementia, Falls, etc)
• Mortality (Life Expectancy, Causes of Death, etc)
Vision for Trafford JSNA
• It will be web based using InfoTrafford
infotrafford.org.uk
• It will present needs at different levels:
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Trafford
Ward Profiles
Communities
Vulnerable Groups
Questions