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Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

The concept of a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) first arose in the Department of Health’s Commissioning Framework for Health and Wellbeing, published in 2007.

JSNAs form the basis of a new duty to cooperate for Primary Care Trusts and Local Authorities and will provide a framework for health and social care to work in partnership to identify the needs of the population they serve and to identify the strategic direction of service delivery to meet these needs over the next three to five years. It is intended that the JSNA will develop into an ongoing process of a joint review of the health and social care needs of Walsall's population.

Work is currently underway on Walsall's first JSNA. Interim versions of the summary and the core dataset are available to view below, along with a number of other related documents of interest.

Despite budget constraints on the NHS, in 2006 public health and associated public health targets continued to remain a high priority at both a Government and PCT level. This report constitutes the Public Health Performance Monitoring Group's Annual Report, incorporating the Choosing Health and LDP targets. It continues to audit progress against all the public health targets, and in doing so completes the audit cycle begun in 2004 with the Director of Public Health's Annual Report: A Health Equity Audit. It provides a means to self-assess our current position and a basis for prioritising future action with regard to each of the factors outlined in the report, as well as serving as the basis for funding bids to the LDP process in 2007/2008 and ongoing monitoring of LAA targets.

People, especially those with long term conditions whose health and care needs mean that they use the NHS and social care the most, expect and want greater control over their case and more personalised services. They want control over the things that matter most to them: what treatment and care they receive as well as who provides it and where (for many, this means closer to their home or workplace).

Extending choice beyond elective care to people with long term conditions was recognised in the Next Stage Review Interim Report as a significant next step in providing the more personalised services people model. With accompanying explanation and case studies, it helps illustrate how a collaborative approach to care planning between the health professional and the patient can identify a range of more specific options tailored to suit the individual, and then how these decisions can be consolidated to influence commissioning on the macro level for the local population.

A key Public Health function is to identify health needs and highlight concerns. This report is the first in a series of three. Each report will consider key Public Health issues but with a locality focus for the two newly established health localities within Walsall Primary Care Trust. These are North and West Walsall, and South and East Walsall. For many aspects, analysis down to ward level will also be undertaken.

The first report aims to analyse and review key data and information from the 2001 Census and the 2001 Adult Lifestyle Survey. It is intended that this analysis will highlight key public health concerns and messages, help establish baselines, and inform and assist policy and strategy formulation by the Local Executive Committees of the two localities and the primary care trust as a whole.

The national strategy 'Saving Lives: Our Healthier Nation' aimed to improve the health of the population of England as a whole, in addition to improving the health of the worst-off members of society, and in doing so reduce health inequalities. National Targets for 2010 were set in four areas: coronary heart disease and stroke, cancer, mental health and accidents. Intermediate 'milestones' also set for 2005.

This report examines the progress achieved towards the Walsall targets in the nine years from 1995-97 up to 2004-06, using the most recent data avaliable from NCHOD. Trends since 1994 are shown, together with comparisons with West Midlands regional data and national data. Because of inevitable year-to-year fluctuations, the main measure of progress used in this report is monitoring data for the triennium 2004-06 compared with the baseline period 1995-7 (as recommended by the Department of Health.) The report is therefore monitoring progress in Walsall 'Nine Years On', with a further 5 years to run to the target year of 2010.

In addition, the report also examines progress in reducing inequalities between Walsall and national morality rates in the target areas covered by Our Healthier Nation. This is reported in more detail in Appendix 2, which should be read in conjuction with the relevant sections in the main body of the report. Appendix 3 maps the inequalities across the West Midlands region, highlighting Walsall's relative position.

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This page was last updated on 19 June 2009