Hounslow Council and NHS Hounslow will be holding a “Visioning Day” for the Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNA) 2012-13 on Wed 1st Feb 2012.
The aim of this day is to ensure better community engagement in the JSNA going into the future, ensuring that both Third Sector and community/patient groups are involved and has an input at the onset in the JSNA process. A Visioning Day will allow closer working with commissioners, both in health and social care, to inform the JSNA process and ensure that future commissioning priorities are based on identified community need. The Visioning Day will encourage commissioners to better understand the role of the voluntary and community sector and the benefits this will provide to future commissioning in the Borough.
If you are a voluntary sector organisation that is involved in health and social care, Please email: deepa.mehta@hounslowpct.nhs.uk with your name and organisation, plus a few details about how your organisation is involved in heath & social care to confirm attendance.
Hounslow has a statutory requirement to produce a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), a core document produced jointly by the Local Authority and the NHS, to ensure that the commissioning of health and social care services in Hounslow is based on population need. The JSNA together with the Health and Wellbeing Strategy, are the foundations of local decision making, focussing community leaders on the key priorities and providing the evidence base for decisions about local services and better targeting resources.
The JSNA 2011/12 for Hounslow has been published and this is a document that describes the needs of the local population across a wide range of topics from housing to long term conditions. The JSNA 2011/12 can be found on the following link:
http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/index/health_and_social_care/health_policies.htm
JSNA 2012/13 (due for publication mid-2012) and JSNA 2013/14 (due early-2013) in the borough.
