Health Needs Assessment Toolkit

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6. The Document The finished document will contain: Introduction Description of practice Description of community Quantitative study Qualitative study Summary Action Plan The summary should state the main findings and state recommendations for addressing them. The findings will be easily identifiable. The recommendations can be made once the findings have been prioritised, see separate section. All the sections combined together will become your health needs assessment document. An electronically produced document can be made readily available to all with access to the system and is easily updated, as it should be, on an annual basis. The document is now complete but the exercise is not. There is no point in putting an enormous effort into identifying the health needs of the practice population if you are not going to address them. In fact it has been suggested that health needs assessment be renamed health needs ADDRESSMENT. 10 Backward Forward
7. The Next Step It is essential on completion to prioritise the identified needs and produce an action plan to address them. There are separate entries on how to prioritise and producing an action plan. You could at this stage reform your team including some original team members and some new members. This provides an opportunity for other people to become involved and for anyone who wishes to leave the team to do so. It is important to retain at least one member of the original team. Consider the problem being addressed and who might be particularly useful to include in the team. The action plan will consist of objectives to meet by a set review date. A template is included to assist you. The review date should be a year from completion of the needs assessment, although it is important to include a mechanism for monitoring progress. The ideal monitoring process would be those responsible for objectives reporting progress at primary health care team meetings. The annual review should consist of updating data; reviewing objectives and setting new objectives, including any required to develop the needs assessment further. The audit and evaluation can be simple but are important to demonstrate the extent of the change made and the benefits achieved from it. Advice is given on the sheet explaining how to produce an action plan. You are now in a position to use the toolkit to produce the components of your health needs assessment. This toolkit has been developed to be a simple and useful tool to assist the process of producing a health needs assessment. The <strong>Health</strong> Development Agency have also produced a workbook for health needs assessment and you may find a copy useful to support the toolkit. Visit the <strong>Health</strong> Development Agency website at www.hda-online.org.uk 11 Backward Forward
Page 1 and 2: Health Needs Assessment Toolkit Thi
Page 3 and 4: A Quick Guide to Health Needs Asses
Page 5 and 6: A Toolkit for Health Needs Assessme
Page 7 and 8: 1. What is Health Needs Assessment?
Page 9 and 10: 3. Benefits for the Practice The wo
Page 11 and 12: 4. Using the Toolkit Having establi
Page 13: 5.2 Project Planning Project manage
Page 17 and 18: Description of the Community The de
Page 19 and 20: Quantitative Study Data in general
Page 21 and 22: health deprivation and disability,
Page 23 and 24: investigating data available from o
Page 25 and 26: It is possible to do the qualitativ
Page 27 and 28: A random sample Sampling for Interv
Page 29 and 30: Describe the Practice population He
Page 31 and 32: Semi-Structured Interviews Semi-str
Page 33 and 34: Focus Groups Focus groups are first
Page 35 and 36: The report should include some illu
Page 37 and 38: Action Plan When you have agreed yo
Page 39 and 40: Health Needs Assessment Action Plan
Page 41: The Ongoing Process It is important

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