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Health joint strategic needs assessmentThis page gives some background to North Yorkshire's first Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) and allows the full report or a summary to be downloaded.Local JSNA reports for North Yorkshire's seven districts can also be downloaded. North Yorkshire's first Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) has been produced by the County Council with North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust and other partners. The needs assessment looks at the information available for the communities of North Yorkshire and tells the story of the local populations in terms of health and well-being. This allows us to understand the current and future health and well-being needs of the population over both the short-term (three to five year), to help inform Local Area Agreements and the long-term future, to inform strategic planning. A distinguishing feature of North Yorkshire's Joint Strategic Needs Assessment is the importance it places on what local people think and tell us. The information we have gathered from data and what people have told us about living, playing and working in their communities will help us understand how well or poorly each community is doing in terms of:
We have produced an over-arching Joint Strategic Needs Assessment, describing the whole of North Yorkshire. It is available for download below. Local reports have been produced for each of North Yorkshire's seven districts and can also be downloaded. The reports serve as summaries for the districts and also as introductions to the full North Yorkshire Joint Strategic Needs Assessment. Needs Assessments and CommissioningProduction of a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment is a legal requirement from 1 April 2008, for organisations with formal responsibility for planning and arranging publicly funded provision of health and social care services. This is known as commissioning. In North Yorkshire, the responsibility for health and social care commissioning lies with North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust, North Yorkshire County Council's Adult and Community Services and North Yorkshire County Council's Children and Young People's Services. Tell us what you thinkThis is North Yorkshire's first Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and, as such, provides a starting point for the development of a solid evidence base which will comprise local needs, priorities and, importantly, proven service models and interventions. It can and will be improved upon. Tell us what you think about our first Joint Strategic Needs Assessment. How could we improve it? How well does it describe living in North Yorkshire? Please e-mail or write to us using the details below.
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