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This report provides members of the Health and Wellbeing Board with an update on the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), including work undertaken in the last year, the refreshed JSNA working group and planned work for the coming year.

Board members considered a report which provided them with an update on the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), including work undertaken in the last year, the refreshed JSNA working group and planned work for the coming year. The Consultant in Public Health and the Public Health Specialist Practitioner Advanced were in attendance to present the report and respond to questions.

Key points raised during the presentation of the report included:

·        That the JSNA working group now sat as part of the newly formed Population Health Hub (PHH) steering group.

·        Population Health Management improved population health by data driven planning and delivery of care to achieve maximum impact, then stratifying and segmenting the data to identify local at risk population groups.

·        Population Health Management in York was split into Enabling, Analysing and Doing sections, as outlined in the presentation.

·        The JSNA was an integral part of the PHH as an important component of future service planning, commissioning and improvement.

·        The request form for topic specific needs assessments had been simplified and could be found on the JSNA website.

·        Topic specific needs assessment outputs of the JSNA in 2021 included on bereavement, as requested by the Mental Health Partnership and a Phase I assessment on Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND), with a focus on those aged 0-16.

·        Planned outputs for 2022 included a Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment, a topic specific needs assessment on Early Years and the SEND Phase II, which was to focus on those aged 17-25.

·        A regular, quarterly newsletter was planned with a targeted audience of interested professionals and members of the public.

·        A ‘sounding board’ was planned, where JSNA updates would be discussed and presented to members of the public.

·        It was proposed that progress on the Population Health Hub and JSNA outputs be reported annually to the Health and Wellbeing Board.

Comments and questions from board members included:

·        It was requested that updates to the JSNA be shared more widely, especially with those involved in primary care. It was important that the Population Health Hub fed into the Provider Collaborative to try and ‘join things up’.

·        The Early Years Improvement Board did not have a clear timetable for the collection and analysis of its contribution on the JSNA, however it was to be completed before the annual report to the Health and Wellbeing Board in September 2022.

·        North Yorkshire Police dealt with issues identified in a reactive way, but were keen to support prevention and early intervention work through the Population Health Hub.

·        Board members suggested that Healthwatch York should be invited to ‘sense check’ the JSNA in terms of readability and accessibility.

Resolved:

i.                 That the contents of the report be noted with comments from the board on how the JSNA and work of the Population Health Hub can shape the next York Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

ii.                That comments of board members on the mechanism for keeping the board informed about JSNA progress be noted.

iii.              That comments of board members on the use of the JSNA within their own organisations, and how this use could be increased be noted.

Reason: To keep Board members updated on JSNA progress.