Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNAs) are assessments of the current and future health and social care needs of the local community (Department of Health, 2013).
They aim to highlight needs and assets around topics of joint strategic importance, providing recommendations for action to improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities.
Health and Wellbeing Boards have a statutory duty to produce JSNAs, and they should be used to inform the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
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JSNA Dashboards
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire have collaborated on JSNA dashboards which are divided into 7 chapters.
Dashboard 1 - Health and Wellbeing
This dashboard contains information about Population, Ethnicity, Deprivation, Life Expectancy and Healthy Life Expectancy.
Dashboard 2 - Children and Young People
This dashboard contains information about maternity, education, physical and mental health of children, and vulnerable children.
Further dashboards are currently in production.
Cross-cutting themes
- Air quality (2015)
- An assessment of the impact of housing on health and wellbeing (2013)
- Carers (2024)
- Community-Centred Approaches to Health & Wellbeing (2024)
- Diet and nutrition (2015)
- Excess weight in children, young people and adults (2016)
- Food Insecurity (2024)
- Fuel Poverty (2024)
- Health and Homelessness (2019)
- Infection prevention and control - healthcare associated infections (2015)
- Oral Health (2020)
- Physical activity (2015)
- Self-harm (2019)
- Sexual Health and HIV (2019)
- Substance Misuse: Young people and adults (2022)
- Suicide prevention (2023)
- Tobacco control (2020)
Children and young people
- 1001 days: From conception to age 2 (2019)
- Avoidable injuries in children and young people (2019)
- Breastfeeding and healthy start programme (2014)
- Child poverty (2016)
- Early years and school readiness (2019)
- Emotional and Mental Health of Children and Young People (2021)
- Excess weight in children, young people and adults (2016)
- JSNA 2013: Children and young people
- Special Educational Needs and Disability 0 to 25 years (2023)
- Teenage pregnancy (2017)
- Children in Care and Care Leavers (2024)
- Children Known to the Youth Justice Service (2024)
Adults and vulnerable adults
- Autism (2019)
- Cancer (2019)
- Domestic Abuse (2019)
- End of life care for adults (2017)
- JSNA 2012: Adults and Vulnerable People
- Learning Disabilities (2019)
- Mental health (adults and older people, 2017)
- Prevention and Equity in Adult Social Care (2024)
- Sexual abuse (2014)
- Stroke (2017)
- Viral hepatitis (2017)
JSNA workplan and useful resources
A range of documents have been produced in order to support those involved in writing the JSNA topic chapters in Nottinghamshire. These include the template, a version of the template with some short guidance, a project initiation document for updating chapters and a quality review. These documents are all available below.More
About the JSNA
The Local Authority and Integrated Care Board (ICB) have a equal and joint responsibility to prepare the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) through the Health and Wellbeing Board. The Board uses the JSNA to agree priorities in order to develop the Health & Wellbeing Strategy. The Strategy will, in turn, help to shape local health and social care commissioning plans.
The JSNA in Nottinghamshire undergoes an annual prioritisation process to determine and agree the workplan for the upcoming year. This process is overseen by the JSNA steering group. Historically our JSNA chapters have followed a chapter format but we are currently reviewing this and considering additional JSNA related products for development.
The Health and Wellbeing Board also has a statutory responsibility to to assess needs for pharmaceutical services in its area and publish a statement of its assessment. This is known as the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) which you can find here.
Key contacts
Email: jsna-ncc@nottscc.gov.uk