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Health joint strategic needs assessmentA joint strategic needs assessment brings together local authorities; the community and voluntary sector service users; and NHS partners to research and agree a comprehensive local picture of health and wellbeing needs. It also supports and encourages organisations to work together when developing services.
This page gives a background to North Yorkshire's joint strategic needs assessment. You can also download current reports and see how we intend, with your help, to produce the next joint strategic needs assessment report. On this page you can:
North Yorkshire's joint strategic needs assessmentNorth Yorkshire's joint strategic needs assessment looks at what we know about the people of North Yorkshire and their current and future health and wellbeing needs. It does not look at the particular needs of individual people; it looks at the 'big picture' of people's needs in North Yorkshire and where needs are not being met as well as they could be. It sets out to answer the following:
North Yorkshire's first joint strategic needs assessment report was published in 2008, followed by a series of district summaries in 2009 and an interim report in 2010. These reports can be downloaded below. In future, production of a joint strategic needs assessment will be the responsibility of North Yorkshire's health and wellbeing board and will provide essential input to the development of a joint health and wellbeing strategy. How are we going to produce a new joint strategic needs assessment?Although joint strategic needs assessment should be a continuous process and not just a report, the publication of a report acts as an anchor around which the joint strategic needs assessment can be organised. A Data collection and analysesA wide range of facts and figures will be available in a special joint strategic needs assessment section of STREAM (STatistics, REsearch And Mapping), the North Yorkshire and York online local information system. Although you have to register to use the system, this is simple, free of charge and available to everyone. More details are available on the STREAM website. Information will be available on topics that have a direct or indirect affect on the health and wellbeing of people in North Yorkshire. While STEAM will give access to the raw data, data analysis (what the data tells us) will form part of the joint strategic needs assessment report. What are the big issues and challenges?Knowledge and experience of organisations across North Yorkshire and health, adult's and children's services will be used to identify the big health and wellbeing challenges for the county. Information from surveys and consultations that have been carried across the county will also be used to help understand what people consider to be the important issues that influence their health and wellbeing. What the facts and figures tell us will also be used to help identify and confirm what the key health and wellbeing challenges are for North Yorkshire. PrioritisationIt is important to decide what the county's key strategic health and wellbeing priorities within the previously identified challenges are. This work will include consideration of what the priorities should be, while remembering that there is only so much money available. It is impossible to do everything for everyone. Causes and solutionsThere will be a detailed examination by health and social care experts; key partners (e.g. partnership boards); and other organisations who can contribute, to the consideration of an individual strategic priority 'wider determinants of health and wellbeing'. Where are we now?Work is well underway to produce the next joint strategic needs assessment report. The progress so far is as follows:
Recent joint strategic needs assessment eventsThe seven events held across the county, one in each district, were well attended, despite some concerns about the weather. Some lively and very useful discussions took place during the events on how decisions on the prioritisation of health and wellbeing spending should be made and people's local and county-wide health and wellbeing issues. You can A follow-up event for the whole county was held in Harrogate on 10 May during which some initial findings and supporting evidence from the joint strategic needs assessment were presented. Copies of the presentations used at the events can be downloaded below.
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