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Sheffield’s Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA)
Understanding the health and well-being of local people.
The JSNA is a systematic method for assessing the health and well-being needs of a population and helps partners work out what they need to do to improve the health and well-being of everyone in Sheffield.
The JSNA draws its conclusions from analysis of local demographic data, information on the health and well-being of local people, and the ‘voice’ of people and communities.
The JSNA is led by the Sheffield First Health and Well-being Partnership Board and is supported by a multi-agency working group. This group actively works with service providers to gain an understanding of health needs across the city and to listen to the ‘voice’ of Sheffield. It does this by collecting information from local people, service users and their carers and ensuring communities are involved at all stages.
The JSNA is currently being updated, with the annual statement due to be published in November. This will outline what know about the health and well-being needs of people in Sheffield. To understand these needs, we have asked service providers and organisations about their methods of community engagement; who/what area it represents, what was asked, what it tells us and what requires more focus. Hearing the views of particularly hard to reach groups (an example being those with complex medical and social care needs and those experiencing social exclusion) is recognised as a significant challenge.
The annual statement aims to inform the commissioning bodies that work towards addressing health and well-being needs. It will also form the basis of further ongoing public engagement process that will re-evaluate the state of people’s health and well-being. It aims to influence the commissioning of health and social care services over the next five to ten years. It also aims to influence health and well-being priorities in the city’s Local Area Agreement.
The annual statement can be accessed by service providers, service users and their carers and anyone publicly with an interest in the health and well-being of Sheffield’s communities.