The Somerset Health and Wellbeing Board has a statutory duty to produce a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA). Our JSNA describes the current and future health, care and wellbeing needs of the local population. Based on this evidence, the Board has set out its overall vision, key priorities and the actions to meet those needs in the current Improving Lives Strategy 2019-2028.
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An estimated £142m is spent by consumers on purchasing tobacco (legal & illicit) annually in Somerset. (Department of Health and Social Care modelling costs of smoking for Somerset 2024).