Welcome to the Interactive Lincolnshire Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
Welcome
Welcome to the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) website for Lincolnshire. We are pleased to be able to confirm that after a period of consultation the priorities set out in the 2011 Overview Report have been agreed by the Shadow Health and Well-being Board.
The final version of the 2011 Overview Report is available for download.
In order to ensure the JSNA is as useful as possible, both now and in the future, you can view a profile for each of the emerging Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG). These are available by following the link in the box to the right and contain data from various sources at CCG level.
What is the JSNA?
The JSNA process aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of current and future local needs across a range of issues, utilising a wide range of quantitative and qualitative data, including user, patient and community views.
The requirement to produce a JSNA has been a statutory duty on county wide local authorities and local NHS since 2007. This duty has been further enhanced by the current Health and Social Care Bill.
The Coalition Government has placed the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment at the heart of its proposals with regard to the future of local health improvement.
Lincolnshire Approach
The approach we are adopting for the JSNA in Lincolnshire is one of continuous improvement. We have already made great steps in improving our JSNA for 2011 but are clear that there is far more we can do to develop it further.
As part of this improvement we have presented the JSNA in a different way this year. We have created new groupings of data so that you are able to view the JSNA based on the traditional core themed areas but can also now look at the information based on the priorities set out by Sir Michael Marmot in his review of health inequalities in England (Fair Society, Healthy Lives 2010) and also view it by topic areas.
Responses to the consultation held between 1 June 2011 to 31 July 2011 have been considered. The priorities for 2011 have been agreed and the final version of the Overview Report - 2011 has now been published.