04a JSNA Appendix , item 5. PDF 6 MB - Lambeth Council

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JSNA Project Plan
Overview of Project
Background
The concept of Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) was introduced in the
Department of Health’s (DH) Commissioning Framework for Health and wellbeing
document published in March 2007. The Local Government and Public
Involvement in Health Act (2007) [Clause 116] places a duty on upper tier local
authorities and Primary Care Trusts (PCT) to undertake a Joint Strategic Needs
Assessment (JSNA). This provision came into force in April 2008. The Director
of Public Health, Director of Adult Social Services and Director of Children’s
Services are jointly expected to take a lead in producing a strategic needs
assessment through strong partnership.
The DH describes JSNA as ‘a systematic method for reviewing the health and
well-being needs of a population, leading to agreed commissioning priorities that
will improve health and well-being outcomes and reduce inequalities.
The JSNA is expected to “describe the future health care and well-being needs of
local population and the strategic direction of service delivery to help meet those
needs”. A key element of JSNA is that it should involve all the important
stakeholders in identifying needs and take appropriate actions to address those.
The assessment process is expected to make use of existing information, identify
gaps, actively engage stakeholders including patients and public for their views,
understand local service provision; and most importantly, the outputs or findings
be translated into actions for the commissioning and delivery of health and social
care services, health improvement and well-being programmes and
interventions.
The World Class Commissioning competencies emphasise the role of JSNA in
driving the long term commissioning strategies of PCTs and their collaborative
work with community partners including public and patient engagement. The
JSNA is envisioned as a dynamic process periodically updated and is expected
to contribute immensely as a key tool to achieve a shift towards commissioning
to improve health and well-being outcomes and reduce inequalities.
Aims and Objectives
Aim
To understand the current and future health and well-being needs of the
population; over both short term (3-5 years) to inform Local Area Agreements
(LAA), and the longer term (5-10 years) to inform strategic planning and
commissioning.
Lambeth JSNA – Preliminary assessment
Version 4
October 2008
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