Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA)

• Introduction
• Report and summary
• Contacts

Introduction

The directors of adult social services, public health and children and young people's services in every local authority and Primary Care Trust (PCT) have a statutory duty from April 2008 to work together to develop a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) for their district.

The JSNA must pull together a wide range of information about the current and future health and well-being needs of the local population. It provides an opportunity to look to the future - over the next 5, 10, 15 and 20 years - so that we can plan now for likely changes in needs. So it is one of the major influences in directing our commissioning priorities and planning service development.

Report and summary

• JSNA report: health and well-being key issues for the people of Kirklees (PDF 1.5Mb)
• JSNA Summary of Findings 2008 (PDF 321kb)

Contacts

• Margaret Watt
  Adult Services
  Kirklees Council
  margaret.watt@kirklees.gov.uk
• Matthew Holland
  Children & Young People's Service
  Kirklees Council
  matthew.holland@kirklees.gov.uk
• Deborah Collis
  Public Health Directorate
  Kirklees PCT
  deborah.collis@kirkleespct.nhs.uk