JSNA Workshop 2NHS Islington

Rachel Maan

Public Health Strategist 30th April 2009

Islington’s priorities for development

• Good start but much to improve

• The main focus:

Engagement with the community

Engagement with third sector

What’s the scope for improvement?

Community and third sector engagement

Capture the complexity of

the local population

Engagement across the whole

processCommunicating the outcomes of

the JSNA

Engaging with local networks,

groups and forums

New PPI strategy

Active dialogue with the

community

Utilise existing consultation

data

Social marketing and the NHSI

brand

Goals and outcomes to achieve

The goals…• To empower local people to voice their needs• To engage with and listen to the third sector• To foster greater local ownership of the JSNA process and outcomes• To maintain on-going local engagement in the JSNA cycle

The outcomes…• Priorities that reflect the needs of the local population• Increased relevance of services for local people• Improved uptake, quality and sustainability of services• Stronger relationships with the local community and the third sector

Challenges to face

• Diverse and transient population –getting to the hard to reach and ensuring broad representation

• Resources - genuine engagement takes time and money

• Refining the scope• Building in the soft data; quantitative v. qualitative• Assimilating competing priorities• How will we know it is a success?

What help will we need?

• Learning from the success of others• Support and engagement from local community

organisations, groups, networks• Senior level support across LA and NHS to raise

the profile and ensure internal engagement • Expertise in community consultation• Easy to use toolkits e.g. for evaluation and

utilising soft data