Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

Introduction

A Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) is the means by which the Primary Care Trust (PCT) and local authorities work together to understand the future health, care and well-being needs of their community. The JSNA aims to support action to improve local people's well-being by ensuring that services meet their needs. It is designed to inform and drive future investment priorities and thereby help to plan services more effectively. It will only succeed if the knowledge that the data yields is actually acted upon.

This is the first time such a huge wealth of data from a number of different sources that cover social care, health, housing, income, behaviour and services has been brought together into a single product shared between both the NHS locally and the county council. Having a common and consistent evidence-base across the PCT and social care means that when gaps in provision are identified agencies can work together on tackling them. We see this as an essential step towards putting local people and their needs at the centre of planning.

The main findings from this JSNA highlight some important local strategic priorities for improving health, preventing illness and reducing health inequalities:

• reducing premature mortality and improving life expectancy
• meeting the needs of those with long-term conditions
• responding to an ageing society and the needs of older people
• improving children and young people's life chances
• increasing healthy lifestyles and breaking the cycle of deprivation

Downloads

• JSNA report (.pdf format, 2.5 Mb)
• Wallchart (.pdf format, 151 Kb)
• Scorecards - Ward view (.pdf format, 6.5 Mb)
• Scorecards - GP practice view (.pdf format, 5.2 Mb)
• How to read the scorecards (.pdf format, 55 Kb)
• Definition of core data set indicators (.pdf format, 344 Kb)
• Table of data sources (and glossary) (.pdf format, 139 Kb)
• Caveats on data quality (.pdf format, 95 Kb)
• List of indicators not included this year for lack of data (.pdf format, 91 Kb)
• Map of the six GP consortia (.pdf format, 116 Kb)
• Oxfordshire's approach to JSNA (.pdf format, 63 Kb)
• PowerPoint presentation (.pdf format, 2 MB)
• Communication Plan

How to request additional analysis

Apart from the key messages that have already emerged - the data is capable of yielding much more information, depending on what one is looking for. Commissioners, planners and operational service mangers are encouraged to contact us for further analysis. Any such requests for bespoke information and data interrogation can be directed to the following mail box: JSNA@oxfordshire.gov.uk.

Workshops

Three workshops to learn more:

• Councillors and Non-Executive Trust Board members - 11 September, County Hall, 10.30am - 12.30pm
• County council and PCT staff and GPs - 16 September, Asian Cultural Centre, 10am - 12.30pm
• Health and Well-Being Partnership Board and partners - 18 September 2008, Oxford Town Hall, 12pm - 2pm