Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
As part of their service planning and commissioning, local authority and health partners across the county of Essex have undertaken a high level Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA). This is the first pan-Essex JSNA and represents a fantastic partnership effort across health and local authorities (county, unitary, district and borough), It has already played a significant role in enabling partners to determine shared priorities for inclusion in local and county sustainable community strategies. It has also helped shape the future priorities that partners need to include in the Local Area Agreement.
The JSNA was produced in response to the Department of Health's consultation document, Commissioning Framework for Health and Well-Being. It is intended to help achieve a:
- shift towards services that are personal, sensitive to individual need and that maintain independence and dignity;
- strategic reorientation towards promoting health and well-being, investing now to reduce future ill health costs;
- stronger focus on commissioning services and interventions that will achieve better health and improve the quality of life with all partners working together to promote inclusion and tackle health inequalities.
The JSNA is the first step in helping accomplish this. It provides analyses of data to show the health and well-being status of local communities; defines where inequities exist. It also incorporates, where possible, local community views around priorities for service improvement. It is therefore a robust evidence-base in order to agree the strategic direction of service delivery and will be used to inform future commissioning and to improve outcomes for the residents of Essex, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock.
In recognition of the importance of engaging all key partners and understanding the distinctive nature of different parts of Essex, a local profile for each of the twelve district / borough councils and the two unitary authorities has been produced together with a full JSNA covering the whole of the county of Essex. The JSNA takes a broad view of health and well-being, considering the wider determinants of health and quality of life.
- To download the Full Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) PDF 3.2mb click here
- To download the Summary Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) PDF 313kb click here
- To download the Harlow JSNA PDF, 3mb click here
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