About the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

The purpose of the JSNA is to analyse the current and future health and well-being needs of the local population to inform the commissioning of health, well-being and social care services.

The JSNA aims to establish a shared, evidence based consensus on the key local priorities across health and social care and is being used to develop Warwickshire’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy, Commissioning Plans for the Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and Transformation Plans for the local Health Economy.

The Health & Well Being Board (HWB) is statutorily responsible for developing joint Health and Well Being Strategies based on the assessment of need outlined in Warwickshire’s JSNA. To find out more about Warwickshire’s Health and Wellbeing Board, follow this link: hwb.warwickshire.gov.uk/about-hwbb/.

In 2017 a new approach was agreed by Warwickshire Health & Wellbeing Board, with the focus of the JSNA moving from a theme-based to a place-based approach. The new programme of work started in April 2018 and focuses on understanding Warwickshire’s health needs on a geographical basis. Twenty two JSNA geographies were approved by the JSNA Strategic Group in June 2017. Information on these geographies can be found in the JSNA Profiles.

Go to hwb.warwickshire.gov.uk/jsna-place-based-approach/ for more information on the place-based approach.

The term JSNA can be broken down as follows:

  • Joint – they are carried out jointly by health, local authorities and community and voluntary organisations to produce a picture of people’s needs and to help them work together to find answers to those needs.
  • Strategic –they identify the ‘big picture’ of the health and wellbeing needs and differences across Warwickshire. They do not try to find out the needs of individual people.
  • Needs –they set out to find what people require to help their health and wellbeing and to identify where these requirements are not being met.
  • Assessment – facts and figures, together with people’s knowledge, experience and opinions are used to find out what people’s current and future needs are. The JSNAs use a wide range of data collected from different sources including the Census, GPs, hospital admissions, social services, housing, police, leisure, education voluntary and community organisations.

We welcome any comments or feedback on the content and functionality of these JSNA pages. Please email: insight@warwickshire.gov.uk .