Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

"We had a clear idea of what we needed to produce and CHKS helped the vision become a reality in a very short space of time."

Cynthia Lyons, Deputy Director of Public Health
East Sussex Downs & Weald PCT
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Understanding the needs of your entire population is crucial in ensuring the right services are provided in the right places across your PCT.  The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment is the foundation stone for defining these needs and the evidence base to inform your strategic planning and commissioning decisions.   

Few PCT have the analytical capacity to source, manipulate and interrogate vast quantities of data and produce clear information to inform strategic commissioning plans.  But with 20 years experience, we are experts in gathering data and transforming it into manageable and usable information.  CHKS has already worked with a number of PCTs and Local Authorities to develop Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNA), which now underpin Local Delivery Plans and Local Authority Agreements.

Our unique approach will: 

• Help you fulfil a number of key competencies within World Class Commissioning
• Provide a clear evidence base to inform your Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
• Assess need, demand and local variations across your population at all levels - from PCT to GP practice, from county to electoral ward
• Encourage and support meaningful engagement with all stakeholders including local authorities, GPs and other local service providers
• Help you understand the needs of different communities across health and social care
• Enable you to identify trends and actively monitor changes over time
• Define achievable improvements in health and well-being outcomes
• Provide a extensive resource of information which you can interrogate for other purposes and use in different ways to inform other public health initiatives