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Needs Assessments
A Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) creates a picture of local need, both now and in the future, to enable partners to deliver the right services at the right time in the right place.

A JSNA has been a statutory responsibility for Directors of Adult Social Care, Commissioning and Public Health since April 2008 and the recent public health and local government white papers have only served to strengthen this requirement, developing it even further.

Other than a statutory responsibility the benefits of conducting a good strategic needs assessment are:
  • supporting strategic world class commissioning
  • the more effective deployment of services contributing towards efficiency savings
  • supporting national policy in developing more effective targeted and integrated care
  • enabling a more outcomes focused view of service provision – improving performance
  • acting as an evidence base to make future funding bids
JSNAs are and should be considered as more than just a dataset/intelligence base. The diagram below attempts to explain the ‘journey’ most areas are engaged in with regards to JSNAs, with our experience and intelligence telling us that most are to the left hand side of the diagram, but with aspirations to move towards the right hand side. We recommend current JSNAs should aim to be to the right of centre – but placement on this spectrum depends purely on ambition, foresight and whether they can easily be embedding into the locality commissioning processes.



CPC can help if:
  1. You require additional support to undertake a holistic assessment of needs
  2. You would like to build into the assessment a richer picture of the area, taking account of local assets
  3. You require a sustainable solution to conducting future assessments. If so CPC can design a framework which will assist you in future production of the JSNA

Our approach to JSNAs is closely aligned to asset based assessments and health and wellbeing service provision.

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