What is a JSNA
The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act (2007) places a duty on all Upper Tier Local Authorities and PCT’s to undertake a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA). Wigan is an upper tier authority which means that we share the responsibility with the PCT to produce a JSNA.
The JSNA is expected to describe the future health, care and well-being needs of the borough.
The Process
The process needed to produce the JSNA will involve a systematic approach to gathering information about the current and future health, care and well-being needs of the Borough’s population. Some of the information gathered will be statistical, some of it will be the views of the public and service users.
The JSNA will be an ongoing process and in order to gather information, a live web based model is currently being developed which will easily be updated. The system used to develop the model is called WISDOM , which stands for Wigan Information System for Dynamic Online Maps. This model will then enable us to carry out analysis on a regular basis which will highlight the main issues emerging within the borough and will form the basis of the JSNA final report.
What Will the JSNA be Used For?
Information gathered will be used to identify potental gaps in future service provision. For example, one of the key challenges in the future will be the ageing population meaning that we will have increased numbers of older people. It may be that the JSNA highlights the need for more housing which is suited to the needs of older people. The JSNA will therefore provide evidence which will inform the future planning and commissioning of services within the Borough in both the short term (three to five years time) and in the longer term (five to ten years time).
JSNA in Wigan
We already hold a lot of information on the borough. The JSNA therefore brings this information together and builds upon it to give us a clear idea of the borough's needs. To view the latest version of the JSNA, click on the links below. Please note that the document is 87 pages long and has therefore been broken down into sections for your convenience:
The following links will guide you to some factsheets which provide examples of the types of information included in the JSNA. The information in these fact sheets also show some maps and tables that have been produced using the WISDOM system:
The following presentations were produced for a series of workshops which were held with the aim of identifying needs in the borough and developing action plans to address these needs:
Summaries of the workshops were also produced which can be viewed by clicking on the following links:
