Decision details

The Cabinet will be asked to consider and approve the recommendations of the report which address the key health inequalities of the borough

The Chair of the shadow Health and Wellbeing Board, Councillor Worby, reported on the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) for 2011 which had been produced jointly by the NHS Outer North East London Primary Care Trust (PCT) and the Council. 

Councillor Worby explained that the JSNA provided a strategic assessment of the health and wellbeing needs of the area and included a range of recommendations for service commissioners when planning to meet those needs.  In view of the austerity measures placed on the Council and the PCT by the Coalition Government it had been acknowledged by the shadow Health and Wellbeing Board that the JSNA recommendations would need to be prioritised to ensure that those most important to the local community were delivered in the first phases of commissioning and business plan implementation.   

Councillor Worby confirmed that the shadow Health and Wellbeing Board had endorsed the JSNA at its meeting on 27 September 2011 and would oversee its progress and the development of a revised Health and Wellbeing Strategy for the Borough.

Cabinet agreed:-

  (i)  The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 2011 on behalf of the Council on recommendation of the shadow Health and Wellbeing Board;

  (ii)  That the shadow Health and Wellbeing Board be responsible for prioritising the JSNA recommendations to be taken forward through the commissioning and business planning processes; and

 (iii)  That all service areas of the Council be encouraged to have regard to the findings in the planning and review of services.

(Note: The full JSNA document is available at www.barkingdagenhampartnership.org.uk/jsna2011consultation)