Agenda item

The Board considered a report of the Director of Public Health which sought to provide an overview to the Barnsley Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA).

The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act (2007) required upper tier local authorities and PCTs to produce a JSNA of the health and wellbeing of their local community.  The Health and Social Care Act 2012 gave this duty to Health and Wellbeing Boards with additional statutory duty to prepare a Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy to meet the needs identified in the JSNA. 

The Board welcomed the work which had taken place to develop and update the JSNA and in particular the significant engagements with stakeholders which had taken place.  The Board supported the development of the JSNA as a web-based reference resource so as to improve engagement with people wanting to know about health and wellbeing in their area.  Close monitoring would take place to determine the extent to which the JSNA would be used and become embedded in local structures and partnerships, local commissioning strategies, in order to improve outcomes for local people.

RESOLVED that the Health and Wellbeing Board note in particular:-

(i)        the streamlined approach to developing the JSNA;

(ii)       the stocktake of intelligence, products and outputs across all partners;

(iii)      the approach in developing “one-stop” website for Barnsley information and intelligence (including the JSNA); and

(iv)      the process for the identification of topic areas for “deep-dives” using an agreed prioritisation tool.