Decision details

Owen Richardson, Data and Insight Enablement Lead presented information on the Kirklees Joint Strategic Assessment (KJSA).  The Board was informed that the Health and Social Care Act (2012) requires Health and Wellbeing Boards, working through local authorities and the previously Clinical Commissioning Groups to produce a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) of the health and wellbeing of their local communities.

Public Health England as it was at the time, defined the purpose of a JSNA as a “systematic method for reviewing the health and wellbeing needs of a population leading to agreed commissioning priorities that will improve the health and wellbeing outcomes and reduce inequalities.

The Board was informed that guidance at that time suggested that a JSNA should:

-       provide assessment of health and social care needs

-       include place-based population health analysis

-       adopt a system wide approach to health inequalities

-       create an evidence base for local strategies and commissioning

The Board was informed that, although the national guidance underpinning the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) remains unchanged and has not been updated, it continues to be in effect. In Kirklees, the Health and Wellbeing Board has delegated responsibility for the production of the JSNA to a steering group.

In 2015, the Board agreed to rebranding it to the Kirklees Joint Strategic Assessment (KJSA) to place greater emphasis on assets and the KJSA moved to become a web-based product.  An updated overview section is presented to the Board annually, with all other sections updated on a 2-to-3-year schedule.

All the work on the KJSA was paused in 2020, due to the pandemic, and there were limited updates in 2021.  In 2022, the majority of the content shifted to ‘archive section’ to be temporarily replaced by the OHID ‘A picture of health’ profile.  In 2023, work began redesigning, updating and relaunching the KJSA, reducing the number of sections and content volume and to bring it into closer alignment with the Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

There is a new site structure which has six different sections, with the Health and Wellbeing Strategy in mind and thinking about the Health and Care Partnership Wells.  The sections are overview, people, place, wider factors, life stages and other priorities.

The Board was provided with a summary of progress against each of the sections and advised that in terms of next steps, the new website structure will go live within the next few weeks. It will include the completed sections and will have holding pages for the sections still under development. All sections will be completed by the end of 2025, and the steering group will agree the future updating schedule.

The Board was asked to continue to support the KJSA including its promotion and use in forming Commission and prioritisation decisions.

RESOLVED:

That the Board will continue to support the Kirklees Joint Strategic Assessment, including its promotion and use it in informing commissioning and prioritisation decisions.