Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
Lead analyst:
The purpose of Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) is to provide the underpinning health information that is required for the effective commissioning of health services. The process of developing a JSNA involves key decision-makers in adult social care, children's services and public health. The result should be a needs assessment that encompasses health and social issues as well as the broader determinants of health.
The NHS White Paper: Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS is clear that JSNA is an important tool for commissioning. It is also clear that GP commissioners will need to engage locally with the JSNA process.
JSNAs will be used to inform Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies which, in turn, will drive local commissioning decisions.
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Fingertips is an interactive web tool designed and built by erpho to provide easy access to in-depth analysis of health and social care data. Indicators are displayed in interactive ‘tartan rugs’ or red-amber-green (RAG) charts, spine charts, funnel plots, bar charts and time series charts, enabling easy interpretation and comparison against a choice of benchmarks. Health and wellbeing indicators at your Fingertips!
APHO small area indicators for JSNA is a set of indicators at MSOA level for use by organisations carrying out joint strategic needs assessment. The indicators include population estimates, mortality, hospitalisation, lifestyle and socio-economic data.
Erpho, on behalf of the Public Health Observatories in England, has developed a JSNA Data Inventory, published on the website alongside the best practice guide: Joint Strategic Needs Assessment: a springboard for action.
Erpho runs two day Foundation Courses on using health intelligence in commissioning aimed at Commissioners and people working in Health Improvement in PCTs and local authorities. It is useful for those involved in using needs assessments. For more information and to register go to the Foundation Course page
ERPHO resources
Fingertips
Presentation: Erpho's role in assisting JSNA - making information available to all
APHO resources
Resources giving advice on which indicators to choose, how to conduct analysis of them and interpret results correctly
JSNA - the APHO Resource Pack This contains sections on:
- JSNA core dataset (contains the list of DH recommended potential indicators alongside links to the data source)
- Statistical validity
- Projection methods
- Data sharing for JSNA
- Measuring health inequalities
Place survey 2008/9 atlas
Data analysis tools
Technical Briefings
Other publications including The Good Indicators Guide
Indications Series
Fingertips
Small Area Indicators for JSNA
Health Inequalities Gap Measurement Tool for England
DSRs 2005/06 to 2008/09
Top 10 diagnoses 2005/06 to 2008/09
Child Needs Assessment Toolkit
2010 Health Profiles
SWPHO instant atlas - JSNA mapping tool for UA and LA data
Data by LA/UA and small area level
Place survey 2008/9 atlas
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Current JSNAs from the East of England
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Bedfordshire
Cambridgeshire
Essex
Hertfordshire
Luton
Norfolk
Peterborough
Suffolk
SWPHO support for JSNA webpage