Working with your local Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
Find out more about how the benefits of effectively engaging with your local JSNA (updated February 2024 to reflect the Health and Care Act 2022)
About this resource
The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) is a process by which local authorities and integrated care systems assess the current and future health, care and wellbeing needs of the local community to inform local decision making.
JSNAs make sure that health organisations and local authorities have a good understanding of their local populations, and the challenges services face in tackling health inequalities.
Many local Healthwatch regularly influence their local JSNA to share vital information about what people want from services. This resource aims to provide you with more information about how you can engage effectively with yours. It includes:
- More about what a JSNA is and how they work
- Case studies where Healthwatch across the country have worked effectively with their JSNA
- Opportunities for Healthwatch to get involved in their local JSNA
- How you can use JSNA to prioritise your future work and hold local systems to account on what they're doing