Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

An overview of health and wellbeing in Tower Hamlets

The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) is a process through which council services (both the Adults Health and Wellbeing, and Children, Schools and Families directorates) works together with public health services (NHS Tower Hamlets) to assess the needs of the Tower Hamlets population and determine priorities for commissioning services.

The JSNA attempts to answer the questions:

What does health and wellbeing in Tower Hamlets look like?
What should we be doing?
What are we doing?
What can we do better?
What more do we need to know?

Understanding residents’ needs is crucial to reducing health inequalities and improving health and wellbeing for the population of Tower Hamlets. The JSNA highlights some key strategic priorities for improving health, preventing illness and reducing health inequalities. To achieve a healthy and supportive community, our aims are to:

Prevent people from dying prematurely
Help people to live healthier lives
Enable people to live independently
Provide excellent primary and community care
Keep vulnerable children, adults and families safer, minimising harm and neglect

The JSNA core dataset draws together data on population demographics, disease patterns, the wider determinants of health (such as housing, education, employment, benefits, etc), use of social care, use of primary care (i.e. GPs, pharmacists, dentists, etc.), planned and unplanned secondary care (i.e. hospitals, clinics, etc.), performance trends, spend, public perspectives and the views of professionals.

Local data are analysed alongside regional and national figures to allow comparisons with other areas.
Health and social care data analysis highlights the needs of the local population and any gaps in service provision.
Conclusions are drawn and recommendations made to inform how money is spent by the council and the PCT.
In the future, the JSNA will underpin the priorities of the new Health and Wellbeing Boards and of local GP commissioners and providers.

JSNA 2010/11

Last updated June 27, 2011

Summary document

This is a draft version of the JSNA summary document. An updated version will be available by the end of July 2011.

JSNA draft summary document (pdf, 1.2mb)

Factsheets

For further information:

Email questions or comments to JSNA@towerhamlets.gov.uk

Find out about how the Tower Hamlets Involvement Network to influence or change the way local NHS and social care services are delivered.

Tel: 020 8223 8922

For further information please contact Natalia Clifford on natalia.clifford@thpct.nhs.uk.

Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

An overview of health and wellbeing in Tower Hamlets

The JSNA attempts to answer the questions:

JSNA 2010/11

Summary document

Factsheets

The people of Tower Hamlets

Lifestyle, health and wellbeing

Infectious diseases

Adult health, wellbeing and disability

Children, young people and families health and wellbeing

Local health and social services

In-depth JSNA

Health Profiles

Cost effectiveness

Conferences

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