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Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA)
This will inform key local priorities for:
- health and social care
- children and young people’s services
- housing
- local commissioning plans
other relevant strategies.
What does JSNA mean?
Joint stands for the fact that it results from work between Derbyshire County Council, the district councils, and the Primary Care Trusts.
Strategic refers to the fact that it relates to the situation now, over the next three to five years and also the next five to 10 years.
Needs assessment means that it will investigate and summarise the health and well-being needs affecting the Derbyshire population. Its purpose is to inform those responsible for arranging services, to help people decide what those services should be and how and where they should be delivered.
The National view
The JSNA is a continuous process that will:
Identify the current and future health and wellbeing needs of the local population over the short term (three to five years) and over the long term (five to 10 years) to inform the Local Area Agreement (LAA) and the Primary Care Trusts’ (PCTs) strategic plan.
Set the commissioning priorities to reduce health inequalities.
Be delivered by collaborative partnership working, including engagement with service users and will address evidence of effectiveness, identifying best practice, innovation and research to inform how needs are best met.
For further information on the National JSNA guidance visit the Department of Health (opens in a new window) website.
Derbyshire’s JSNA
In one sense our JSNA is a large-scale data gathering exercise, coordinated by the partnership of organisations responsible for providing local services, in order to help improve people’s lives. However, the intention in Derbyshire is for it to be much more than that.
The Derbyshire JSNA has four main elements:
1. What people tell us
Just as important as the hard data is the view of the local population. Local people convey their opinions and needs through a range of channels like formal consultations, complaints, bespoke surveys, patient surveys and advocates. Many of these are already routinely gathered.
The JSNA will also ensure that there are additional opportunities for local people to engage fully with the results and future shape of service delivery.
2. Health and wellbeing data
The local authorities, PCTs and GP practices, the Department of Health and the Office for National Statistics amongst others, routinely capture data about the wellbeing needs of the people they serve. For example, the age profile of the Derbyshire population and data about health conditions that predominantly affect Derbyshire people. JSNA brings this data together into one place.
As the JSNA develops, interested parties will be able to access the data directly and interrogate it to find out about the key factors affecting their local place of interest within Derbyshire.
During 2006/07, Derbyshire JSNA commissioned Planning4Care to report on a range of data that provides a clear picture of the current and future needs for social care.
3. JSNA summary
The JSNA summary will contain the main issues identified by the data gathering and analysis and the results of the various consultations with Derbyshire people.
We already know what some of these issues are but new ones will emerge as the JSNA process works through its course. These will be summarised under this section along with the links to the supporting data and information which has produced them.
4. Resulting action
Although the JSNA is a national initiative, it is very much about uncovering the issues that adversely affect the wellbeing of life for the people of Derbyshire.
The acid test of the success of our JSNA, is the impact the arising knowledge has on the way that services are subsequently commissioned and provided.
As our JSNA develops, we will undertake regular checks to ensure that improvements are being made to the way that services are constructed and delivered.
Our JSNA is designed to be the driver for making improvements to the lives of Derbyshire people by addressing the priority issues that it identifies. The resulting actions should be part of Derbyshire’s Sustainable Community Strategy and the Local Area Agreement (LAA).
You may also like to read information on our website about the Health of Derbyshire (opens in a new window) and the Children's and Young People's Plan.
