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Joint Strategic Needs Assessments

Since April 2008, local authorities and PCTs have been under a statutory duty to produce a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA). Your JSNA must inform your Local Area Agreement and your Sustainable Communities Strategy.

The Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2008/09 refers to the importance of JSNA in informing PCT Operational Plans. JSNA underpins a number of the World Class Commissioning competencies, is the basis on which sound Practice (or locality) Based Commissioning (PBC) decisions are made and will be a focus of the forthcoming Comprehensive Area Assessments (CAA).

The process of JSNA will establish the current and future health and wellbeing needs of a population, leading to improved outcomes and reductions in health inequalities. This is a partnership duty which involves a range of statutory and non-statutory partners, informing commissioning and the development of appropriate, sustainable and effective services.

CPC has worked with a number of local authorities and PCTs to carry out JSNAs on their behalf, including Bury MBC, Medway and the London Borough of Havering.

At CPC we have been closely involved in developing the JSNA process from the outset, understand the clear links between this work and the commissioning cycle and have a clear understanding, gained through experience, of what information organisations require in order to use this process to effect the most change.

If you would like to know more about CPC and our Joint Strategic Needs Assessment expertise and experience, please contact:

Brett Nelson
mob: 07827 804 156
office: 0161 8302139
brett.nelson@cpcltd.com

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