North Tyneside Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
Welcome to the North Tyneside's Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) information.
From April 2008 North Tyneside Council and North Tyneside Primary Care Trust (PCT) have a statutory duty to work together and with other partners to develop a JSNA for the local area.
The JSNA will describe the future health and social care and wellbeing needs of the population in North Tyneside. It has the potential to develop the health and social care response so that it more closely meets the wants and needs of local people.
The JSNA will provide an opportunity to look ahead at least three to five years and to support and direct the change that needs to happen in local service systems.
In North Tyneside our aim is that the JSNA will provide:
- A shift towards services that are personal, sensitive to the needs of the individual, and focused on maintaining independence
- A re-orientation towards promoting health and well being, and proactive prevention of ill health
- A stronger focus on commissioning for outcomes across health and local government, working together to reduce health inequalities and promote equality
The North Tyneside JSNA will underpin future revisions of the:
- Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS)
- Local area agreement (LAA)
- Annual operational/Local Delivery Plan
- Council plan
- Planning and commissioning for both children's and adult health and social care services
Involvement from people who use health and social care services as well as those providing services from the Council, NHS and community and voluntary sector will be essential for the success of the JSNA in North Tyneside.
What are the benefits of the JSNA?
- Encourages a 'whole system' approach to planning and delivering services by all partners
- Supports integrated commissioning
- Helps develop district based service delivery and planning
- Facilitates effective commissioning of services to meet the identified needs of the community
- Gives all stakeholders access to a common set of information to generate a common understanding of the needs of the community
- Assists with benchmarking
- Allows planning to take place over a longer timeframe than previously possible and the development of a long term joint commissioning strategy
- Develops and encourages preventative service provision and planning
- Achieves better utilisation of limited resources from across partner organisations and facilitates more joined up service provision
- Enables the local community to interact with the local authority, PCT and other key partners and providers to 'have a say' in what services are delivered and how they are delivered, and
- Provides an objective 'health check' of what is currently being done
Progress in North Tyneside
Progress of the JSNA is monitored and reported through the:
- North Tyneside Joint Board
- North Tyneside Strategic Partnership
An Executive Board has been convened to scope the nature of, and the process for, the development of the first and subsequent JSNA for the borough. This group has developed, with stakeholders; a timetable and work plan to deliver the borough's first JSNA by autumn 2008.
- Timetable and work plan for the JSNA is currently under development and will be available here shortly
- Documents currently being used to inform the JSNA will be available here shortly
- Engagement and Consultation Event information will be available here shortly
