Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) is required under the 2007 Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill and is also enshrined in the current Health and Social Care Bill and Public Health White Paper ‘Healthy Lives, Healthy People’. Our JSNA is built on strong partnership working and is the means by which Somerset County Council and NHS Somerset will describe the future health, care and wellbeing needs of the local population and the strategic direction to meet those needs.

In 2011, a full JSNA was published for Somerset and consisted of several separate sections (downloadable below). In 2012, as part of our policy of continually assessing needs in the county, we have refreshed and updated the evidence and key issues facing the people and organisations in Somerset, and also started the process to include additional information required under the Equality Act 2010.

The JSNA is underpinned by a comprehensive set of data, further supported by a range of strategic reports and needs assessments carried out by partner organisations. Data can be accessed via INFORM Somerset, in which indicators are constantly being added and updated. Most of the supporting documents, along with previous JSNAs, can also be accessed below.

Information in the JSNA will be refreshed on an ongoing basis, with new sections added to focus on topical issues.

Evidence to support commissioning decision-making needs to be as up-to-date as possible. Therefore, while the main JSNA documents are updated each year, supporting documents and indicators are constantly refreshed in this section of the website. 

They are set out under broad themes although some documents can cut across more than one theme.

If you feel there is something that is not here and ought to be included, please let us know.

In addition to indidvidual JSNA reports we have also been collating a wider set of documents that are relevant and help support the work of the JSNA.

Supporting Documents

Priority Area Report 2011 [pdf / 6.10MB].This report forms the first part of the 2011 JSNA. It identifies the parts of Somerset experiencing the greatest challenges to health and wellbeing, using Priority Scores. These Wards and Lower Super Output Areas (LSOAs) are  identified within the county as a whole and also within each of the five districts.

Online Somerset Health and Wellbeing profiles [pdf / 1.63MB] There are a number of profiles available on the internet describing the health and wellbeing status of populations. This is a summary of them for Somerset and its districts.

Somerset JSNA 2011 Supporting Documents Review [pdf / 208KB]This document contains brief synopses of the many reports, assessments and strategies which have informed the 2011 JSNA.

GP Federation Profiles. These documents aim to aid Federations in the identification of health needs, priority areas and potential service interventions that could be commissioned or provided. The information, together with other data held within the Federation, can then be used as a rudimentary health needs assessment and could be used to inform
decisions within the Federation. A series of prompts and questions have been added to the bottom of some pages. These are designed to aid the interpretation of the data provided and enable the reader to draw conclusions about health needs, priority groups and areas for action.

• Bridgwater Bay Health
• Central Mendip
• Chard, Crewkerne and Ilminster
• East Mendip
• North Sedgemoor
• South Somerset Healthcare
• Taunton Deane
• West Mendip
• West Somerset 

Other Supporting documents
 

General Focus: 

• Citizens Advice in Somerset - Impact Report 2011
• Community Safety Strategic Assessment 2012 - not published
• DSFRS Corporate Plan 2012-15
• DSFRS Strategy 'Towards 2014'
• Somerset Place Survey 2008
• Somerset Economic Assessment 2011
• Somerset Financial Inclusion Strategy 2011-13
• West Somerset Sport and Recreational Facilities Assessment 2012
• Active Travel Strategy 2012

Equality Act (Protected Characteristics) Focus:

• Gypsy & Traveller Accommodation Assessment 2011
• Intergenerational Practice in the Youth Sector
• Mental Health amongst Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning young people
• National Study of Work-Search and Wellbeing (DWP)
• NHS Somerset Equality and Diversity Strategy
• Profile of Mental Health Service Users in Somerset
• Rape and Sexual Violence in Somerset - Met and Unmet Need
• Somerset Sensory Review report
• Somerset Sensory Review appendices
• Stonewall Gay and Bisexual Men's Health survey tables 2012 - South West
• Stonewall Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Health survey tables 2008 - South West
• Transgender - Dimensions of Inequality in the South West

Children and Young People Focus:

• Child Poverty Needs Assessment 2010-11
• Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Summary 2010
• Children & Young People's Needs Assessment 2010
• Child Health Profile 2013
• Somerset Children and Young People's Plan 2012-13

Older People Focus:

• Appraisal of Carer Services in Somerset 2010
• Housing, Health, Care and Support Strategy for Older People in Somerset 2012-15
• Mendip Older Persons Housing Needs Survey tables 2012
• National Survey of Carers 2009-10
• Review of the Needs of Older People in Somerset 2010 (Hastoe)
• Somerset Dementia Strategy - July 2010
• South Somerset Housing Older People's Study 2010 (Fordham)
• Taunton HMA Housing Older People's Study 2010 (Fordham)

 Health Focus:

• Adult Alcohol Treatment Needs Assessment 2010 - not published
• Adult Drug Treatment Needs Assessment 2010 - not published
• Annual Public Health Report 2011
• Cardiology Health Needs Assessment 2010 - not published
• Child Health Profile 2013
• Hidden Harm in Somerset 2010 - not published
• Injury Data - data tables allowing comparison between local authority areas against 40 injury related indicators
• LINk Patient Transport Report 2011
• Mental Health Needs Assessment 2011 
• Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment 2011
• Somerset Alcohol Profile 2012
• Somerset Lifestyle Survey Report 2009
• Somerset Health Profile 2012
• Somerset Tobacco Control Profiles 2013
• Young People’s Substance Misuse Needs Assessment 2010 - not published

Housing Focus:

• EDF Draft Accommodation Strategy - Hinkley Point
• Extra Care Housing Strategic Review 2008
• Health Impacts of Cold Homes and Fuel Poverty 2011
• Homelessness Review and Prevention Strategy 2008-11 Executive Summary
• Housing Related Support Advisory Group (HRSAG) Thematic Workstream Notes July 2011 - not published
• Mendip Housing Strategy 2010-15
• Mortgage and Landlord Possession Claims 2011
• Rural Affordable Housing Project 2010
• Sedgemoor Housing Strategy 2010-15
• Somerset Supported Housing Providers Survey 2011
• South Somerset Housing Strategy Update 2008
• Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessments – available through District Council websites
• Strategic Housing Market Assessment - Somerset 2008 (excludes Mendip)
• Strategic Housing Market Assessment - West of England 2009 (includes Mendip)
• Welfare Reform - Potential Impact on Somerset
• West Somerset Housing Strategy 2009-12