The Research, Performance and Business Intelligence Team is involved in work on the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA). A JSNA is the means by which local authorities, PCTs and local partners describe the future health, care and wellbeing needs of the local populations and to identify the strategic direction of service delivery to meet those needs.
JSNAs have always had a strong focus on health and wellbeing needs and inequalities for communities in Cambridgeshire, and has helped all organisations involved to gain a shared understanding of inequalities in outcomes across the county.
So far, four phases of the JSNAs have been completed in Cambridgeshire. In the JSNA Phase 4 the following areas have been covered:
- A new Children and Young People’s JSNA.
- A new Older People’s JSNA.
- A new JSNA for Adult Mental Health.
- A JSNA on the health and wellbeing of New Communities – looking ahead at planned population and housing development.
- A JSNA on the health and wellbeing needs of Gypsies and Travellers.