Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA)
What is a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA)?
JSNA is a City-wide assessment of the current and future health and social care needs of all local people. This data analysis is used to help to determine what actions partners need to take, to meet health and social care needs, to address the root causes of health and wellbeing, and to reduce inequalities between different groups such as age, race and gender. The JSNA should help to inform partners to make decisions that enable Wulfrunians to live longer, healthier, active lives.
Learn more about what a JSNA is and how to make best use of this resource here .
See our JSNA forward plan here.
Thematic Needs Assessments and Impact Statements
Detailed deep dive reports into a specific health and wellbeing topic and the impact of recommendations.
Our City, Neighbourhoods and Ward Profiles
Including population statistics, city assets, life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.
Best Start to Life and Child Health
Including infant mortality and associated risk factors, oral health, healthy weight and active lives, emotional health and wellbeing.
Adult Wellbeing and Healthy Ageing
Including Health Check data, obesity, smoking, drugs and alcohol use, mental health and wellbeing, frailty and dementia.
Screening and Vaccinations
Including childhood immunisations, HPV, flu, cancer screening and sexual health.
Wider Determinants and Inclusion Health
Including air quality, assets and hazards and total recorded crime.
Community Voice: what local people are telling us
Including our children and young people’s Health Related Behaviour Survey and City Life-style survey.
Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment
Current provision of community pharmacy services across Wolverhampton.
University of Wolverhampton Research
Relevant academic research findings with a focus on health, social care, wellbeing and the wider determinants of health.
Public Health Annual Reports
Library of Director of Public Health annual reports for Wolverhampton.
Practitioner Toolkits
Health and wellbeing resources for professionals and stakeholders.
Governance of the JSNA
Health and Wellbeing Together is the forum where key leaders from the health, care and wider system come together to work collectively to reduce health inequalities, support the development of improved and joined up health and social care services and set the strategic direction to improve the health and wellbeing of the local population. It is the name given to the City of Wolverhampton Health and Wellbeing Board, a statutory board established under the Health & Social Care Act 2012.
Health and Wellbeing Together has a statutory responsibility for the JSNA, and the Board receives regular ‘What’s New in the JSNA’ updates at each meeting. The JSNA, alongside the views of local people, wider community feedback and other relevant data is also used to inform the Board’s Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy priorities and Board decisions. You can access the strategy here .
OneWolverhampton is Wolverhampton’s place-based partnership and is responsible for designing and delivering health and social care services. OneWolverhampton’s Place Development Group is responsible for the operational governance of the JSNA.
Health and Wellbeing Together and OneWolverhampton work together to deliver improved population health outcomes for local people in Wolverhampton.