Working in partnership North Yorkshire County Council is producing its first Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA)  with North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust. We are also working closely with the Third Sector (voluntary and community services and groups) and Local Strategic Partnerships to understand exactly what services the citizens of North Yorkshire need to support their health and well-being.

 

Production of a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) is a legal requirement from 1st April 2008 for organisations with formal responsibility for planning and arranging publicly funded provision of health and social care services. This is known as commissioning.

 

In North Yorkshire the responsibility for health and social care commissioning lies with North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust, North Yorkshire County Council's Adult and Community Services and North Yorkshire County Council's Children and Young People's Services.

 

The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) looks at the information available for the communities of North Yorkshire and tells the story of the local populations in terms of health and well-being. This allows us to understand the current and future health and well-being needs of the population over both the short-term (three to five year), to help inform Local Area Agreements and the long term future, to inform strategic planning.

 

An over-arching Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) describing the whole of North Yorkshire will be produced along with seven local JSNA's which will focus on each of North Yorkshire's 7 Districts.

 

More information is available from North Yorkshire County Councils Website www.northyorks.gov.uk . The quickest way to find the information is by using the A-Z services and searching for Joint Strategic Needs Assessment.

 

Contact  us at jsna@northyorks.gov.uk