The Health and Wellbeing Board (discharged by Local authorities and CCGs (now Integrated Care Board - ICB) have a legal Statutory Duty to undertake the JSNA. The JSNA seeks to identify current and future health and wellbeing needs in the local population and identifies strategic priorities to inform commissioning of services based on those needs.  ​The work helps inform the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy, commissioning, and the development of services and activities.

The JSNA seeks to identify current and future health and wellbeing needs in the local population and identifies strategic priorities to inform commissioning of services based on those needs.  The work helps inform the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy, commissioning, and the development of services and activities.

The term can be broken down as follows:

Joint – they are carried out jointly by health, local authorities and community and voluntary organisations to produce a picture of people’s needs and to help them work together to find answers to those needs.

Strategic –they identify the ‘big picture’ of the health and wellbeing needs and differences across Shropshire. They do not try to find out the needs of individual people.

Needs –they set out to find what people require to help their health and wellbeing and to identify where these requirements are not being met, this includes consideration of those needs which impact on health and wellbeing including wider determinants of health and the communities in which we live as well as the health and care we receive.

Assessment – facts and figures, together with people’s knowledge, experience and opinions are used to find out what people’s current and future needs are.  The JSNAs use a wide range of data collected from different sources including the Census, GPs, hospital admissions, social services, housing, police, leisure, education voluntary and community organisations.