Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 2009
Health, care and wellbeing in Cumbria
Planning for the future
Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA)
What is the JSNA?
It is the responsibility of NHS Cumbria and Cumbria County Council to produce a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) that identifies the future health, care and wellbeing needs of the people of Cumbria.
The purpose of the JSNA is to pull together information that is available on the health and wellbeing of the people of Cumbria, the quality and accessibility of services, evidence about what works and the views and experience of the public. This information will then be used to make decisions about how services are planned and developed in the future.
JSNA 2009
The first JSNA for Cumbria was produced in 2009. To view the 2009 JSNA please use the link below:
JSNA: the national picture
Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) is an ambitious new programme, specified nationally but delivered at a local level, in partnership, by the upper tier NHS and local authorities.
"A good JSNA, which many areas are already doing, is based on a joint analysis of current and predicted health and wellbeing outcomes, an account of what people in the local community want from their services (those provided by the statutory sector and the wider market) and a view of the future, predicting and anticipating potential, new or unmet need." Commissioning Framework for Health and Well-being DH, March 2007
Guidance specifies that JSNA is a process that should lead to agreed commissioning priorities that will improve health and wellbeing outcomes and reduce health inequalities. It should reflect the competencies of world class commissioner; in particular, partnership working; community engagement; and evidence of effectiveness. The JSNA is an ongoing cyclical process as shown by the figure below.
JSNA in Cumbria
The development of the JSNA program in Cumbria was undertaken over several stages. The process was managed by a steering group which reported directly to the Health and Wellbeing Board of the Cumbria Strategic Partnership. The views of stakeholders were initially incorporated through a questionnaire circulated to members of the CSP and senior managers / clinicians from the County Council and NHS Cumbria. The responses from the different stakeholders allowed the steering group to identify which areas and groups of people the JSNA should initially focus on.
