Is your authority meeting the needs of the community?
The white paper Our Health, Our Care, Our Say, identified the need for local Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNAs) across Local Authorities, Primary Care Trusts and the Voluntary Sector.
A JSNA is designed to encourage a whole-system approach to the better design and commissioning of services across the borough, to meet current and future community needs. By using intelligence from all agencies it is intended to ensure that:
- There is a common understanding of need across all public sector organisations ensuring resources have the greatest impact
- The most appropriate services are commissioned/delivered to a targeted group
- Service duplication is removed across providers leading to efficiency savings
- Services are configured without “silos” thus improving quality
click here for 'Our Health, Our Care, Our Say'
click here for the Local Government White Paper
It is soon to become a statutory obligation and is a process that supports the new breed of Local Area Agreements. As such it is the subject of much debate at the moment – particularly between Directors of Commissioning, Public Health, Adult Social Care and Children’s Services.
CPC has worked with Bury, as an “early implementer” of the JSNA, to not only jointly develop a JSNA methodology, but also conduct an actual JSNA across the borough for the key service providers.
Some of the findings to date are:
- A forecast 54% increase in the over 85 year old population over the next 15 years
- The identification of pockets of apparent unmet need for services delivered by Adult Care Services
- Deprivation is a greater influence on educational attainment than the ethnicity of a pupil
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A previously unidentified high percentage of teenagers suffering mental illness as a result of alcohol consumption
click here to view the CPC methodology
CPC JSNA brochure
If you would like to know more please call Ben Eggleston on 020 7015 8500 or Darren Bugg on 0161 830 2144
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