Decision details

The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) is a statutory document that the Health and Wellbeing Board is responsible for.  The main aim of a JSNA is to provide timely, relevant information on the needs of the population to inform key strategies (most notably, the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy) and commissioning decisions. Its ultimate purpose in doing so is to improve the population’s health and reduce health inequalities.

The Health and Wellbeing Board will be asked to approve the 2018 Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA).

The Board resolved to:

(i)  Approve the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 2018, as set out at Appendix A to the report;

(ii)  Agree that the findings of the JSNA should be taken into account in the development of strategies and the appraisal of strategies developed by partner organisations; and

(iii)  Support the commissioning of services by partner organisations that align with the JSNA findings.