Joint Strategic Needs
Assessment
Liz Robinson JSNA Co-ordinator
Newcastle City Council
Helen Wilding
Wellbeing and Health Partnership Coordinator
What is a Joint Strategic Needs
Assessment?
• A JSNA should be the shared process to inform health
and social care commissioning plans.
• The responsibility is jointly placed on Directors of Adult
Services, Children's Services and Pubic Health
• It should be a Joint process involving the local
authority and NHS Commissioning rather than these
organisations carrying out needs assessment’s
separately.
• It should be Strategic by looking at population level
health and wellbeing with particular focus on groups
experiencing the poorest health and wellbeing
outcomes.
• It should anticipate future demand for services 3 – 5
years ahead.
The Joint Strategic
Needs Assessment
•Demographic data
•Research
•Historical performance
and trends
•Service activity
•Legislation and
Government policy
•Partner and
Community views
•Available resources
Understanding need together
•Shared priorities
Developing priorities
together
Future role for JSNA
• The City Council and GP Commissioning
Consortia will have an equal and explicit duty to
undertake the JSNA through the new Health and
Wellbeing Board
• The Council and GP Commissioning Consortia
must have regard to JSNA in exercising relevant
commissioning functions.
• The Health and Wellbeing Board must produce a
Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy based on
the JSNA.
Newcastle’s Approach
• The JSNA Project Board steers the
process chaired by the Executive Director
of Adult Services and Culture Services.
• It includes the NHS, the Council and
NCVS.
• The development of the content of the
JSNA is overseen by the Wellbeing and
Health Partnership and Children's Trust’s
arrangements.
Newcastle’s Approach
• A sectional approach with each section led
by a topic lead e.g. ‘Adults with learning
disabilities section’.
• A governance group (where possible) who
owns the section. e.g. the Learning
Disabilities Partnership Board
• A principle that the governance group
need to be inclusive in their approach and
this will vary depending on the section.
What people have said they like
• That the result of this work is available as
a website www.newcastlejsna.org.uk
• Partners appear to like the sectional
approach.
• Has been used by the voluntary sector,
practice based commissioning groups as
well as NHS and local authority
commissioning.
Where it needs to improve
• People not involved in the governance
arrangements are not sure how to be involved
and contribute.
• Needs to look more at the wider social
determinants of health
• Needs to be better at gathering knowledge of
providers and local experience in a systematic
way
• Needs to develop more to inform NHS
commissioning
Any questions?
Over to you?