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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Somerset in 2025 is ranked as 93 out of a total of 153 of Upper Tier English local authorities, up from 92 in 2019. Moving from rank 92 to 93 means the authority is relatively less deprived compared to others, but the difference is very minimal. (Indices of Deprivation 2025).