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Joint strategic needs assessment: reconciling new expectations with reality

Ed Harding (Partner at HK Consulting, London UK)
Michelle Kane (Partner at HK Consulting, London UK)

Journal of Integrated Care

ISSN: 1476-9018

Article publication date: 9 December 2011

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Abstract

Purpose

This paper seeks to provide a critique on the overall readiness of joint strategic needs assessment (JSNA) to respond to the new roles and functions proposed by the Health and Social Care Bill 2011.

Design/methodology/approach

Commentary informed by a national survey of Directors of Public Health in early 2011, a 2010 regional survey of JSNA leads in the South East, and other thematic and case study research exercises commissioned by or associated with the 2009‐2011 DH JSNA Development Programme.

Findings

Despite significant progress in the quality of JSNA 2008‐2010, raised expectations pose a serious challenge. It is possible to identify a number of key issues that must be directly addressed if the process is to fulfil the new expectations. The paper concludes with a call to action for members of health and wellbeing boards to audit the quality of their existing JSNA around these main challenges.

Originality/value

A new perspective on JSNA in light of new policy changes, combining existing research, unpublished research (as of August 2011) and the authors' experience leading national JSNA policy and improvement at the Department of Health.

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Citation

Harding, E. and Kane, M. (2011), "Joint strategic needs assessment: reconciling new expectations with reality", Journal of Integrated Care, Vol. 19 No. 6, pp. 37-44. https://doi.org/10.1108/14769011111191458

Publisher

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2011, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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