Public Health in Lincolnshire:

What is the JSNA and how the local VCS can influence it

Involving Lincs Conference

28th October 2014

Workshop Session

Lisa Loy & Lorna Leaston Strategy and Performance

Public Health

Health and Wellbeing Board required to:

• Undertake a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) and agree shared priorities

• Produce a Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy (JHWS), using the evidence in the JSNA

• Promote integrated working between NHS and local government (includes ensuring CCG plans align to JSNA and JHWS and agreeing future intentions for Integration Transformation Fund)

What is the JSNA?

A systematic review of the health and wellbeing needs of the population…

…leading to agreed priorities across organisations that will…

…improve the health and wellbeing of the community at the same time as reducing health inequalities.

Background to JSNA

JSNA Topic Commentary

What do we know?• Indicator details• Data, trends, profiles• Targets and performance

data• Local views and

engagement• National and local

strategies• Current commissioned

activity and services

• Key inequalities What are the knowledge gaps?

• How are these impacting on effective service commissioning/delivery?

• What are the risks of us not delivering?

• What is coming on the horizon and what should we be doing next?

What is this telling us?

• Promoting healthier lifestyles• Improve the health and wellbeing of older people• Delivering high quality systematic care for major

causes of ill health and disability• Improve health and social outcomes for children

and reduce inequalities• Tackling the social determinants of health

JSNA Priorities (Health and Wellbeing Strategy Themes)

As service providers and advocates of local community members, local VCS organisations can play a role in: • Identifying health and social care needs (providing both

qualitative and quantitative data)• Providing information on services that are available,

gaps in provision and the effectiveness of current provision

• Advising on how health needs can be met • Supporting and facilitating the engagement of their client

groups in the JSNA process, particularly for those who are most vulnerable and seldom heard.

Role of VCS in JSNA Process

• Provides a crucial opportunity for VCS to shape the local agenda for health & well-being

• Can represent & advocate for the needs of seldom heard / under-represented groups & individuals

• Can highlight unmet need (and gaps in provision) to inform future service planning.

• Third sector can provide evidence for the most effective interventions at a local level advising on issues of quality to improve local provision.

• Jointly develop a more enabling asset-led approach (starting with ‘what we do have’)

Getting Involved

LVSC (London Voluntary & Community sector) set up 'On the Radar‘ - an innovative database of public health services delivered by VCS

• Used by commissioners tendering new contracts;

• Raises the profile of VCS & demonstrates their impact to a relevant audience of public health decision-makers, increasing opportunities for organisations to be commissioned in the future;

• Enables London's public health commissioners to identify gaps in services & new development opportunities for VCS organisations;

• Enables VCS organisations to use the database to research possible partner organisations in their area or if they want to know about a range of other public health services delivered by VCS organisations.

Case Study example

Looking at the Commissioning Cycle diagram devised by Regional Voices

• Find 2 or 3 examples at the local level of what we do/could do (in each of the 4 areas of the cycle) – this shows what opportunities exist at the local level & where we might want to focus on improving them

• Consider how can we demonstrate progress

How can we measure the benefit and impact of the VCS's involvement?

Group Exercise

Lisa Loy Lorna Leaston

Programme Officer Programme Co-ordinator

Public Health Directorate Public Health Directorate

Lincolnshire County Council Lincolnshire County Council

8 Email lisa.loy@lincolnshire.gov.uk 8 Email lorna.leaston@lincolnshire.gov.uk

( Tel 01522 554017 ( Tel 01522 552538

Thank you