Joint Strategic Needs Assessment | JSNA | Central Bedfordshire Council

Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA)

What is the JSNA?

An analysis that identifies current and future health and wellbeing needs of our community
Informs the joint commissioning of healthcare services
Improves outcomes and reduces inequalities

JSNA in detail

Executive summary

The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) brings together what we know about the health and wellbeing of the people living in Central Bedfordshire.

It is a process that identifies the current and future health and well-being needs of the population; assembling a wide range of quantitative and qualitative data, including local views. It leads to agreed commissioning priorities that will improve outcomes and reduce inequalities.

Although the JSNA has been in existence since 2007, it has been evolving, and it is now a central part of the Health and Social Care Act (2012). The JSNA has a key role in underpinning and informing Central Bedfordshire’s new Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

Central Bedfordshire JSNA Executive Summary 2012 (PDF 1.2MB)