Decision - Joint Strategic Needs Assessment Update

46.1    This item was introduced by Alistair Hill, Consultant in Public Health, and Kate Gilchrist, Head of Public Health Intelligence.

46.2    In response to questions on the planned children and young people emotional health needs assessment work, Ms Gilchrist assured members that young people would be actively involved in the needs assessment from an early stage. Schools will also be central to the process – there is a lot of useful information already provided by schools via the Safe and Well in Schools Survey.

46.3    In response to questions regarding the City Insight website, Ms Gilchrist told members that data held on the site could be used to inform discussions around providing city GP services (see Item 53 on this agenda).

46.4    Dr Scanlon reminded members that the data collected via the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) would underpin local health and wellbeing commissioning and provide the basis for the local Joint Health & wellbeing Strategy (JHWS).

46.5    Cllr Norman expressed concern about city rates for late diagnosis of HIV, and argued that this data should be included in the relevant JSNA sections. Alistair Hill responded that the issue of HIV and AIDS is a specific JSNA summary section and had been identified as a high impact area in the process of identifying areas for prioritisation for the JHWS. It was one of the small number of JSNA summary sections updated this year, but diagnosis of HIV remained a focus of ongoing work and focus of the Sexual Health Programme Board.

46.6     In response to a question from Cllr Theobald on mortality due to accidental poisoning, Ms Gilchrist explained that this is predominantly related to drug and alcohol accidental overdoses.

46.7    RESOLVED – that the Board:

(a) notes its duty to publish a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA);

(b) approves a needs assessment for emotional and mental wellbeing of children and young people to be conducted in 2015 (as detailed in 4.5.3 of the report);

(c) approves the 2014 JSNA summary section updates;

(d) approves the plan for updating the 84 summary sections on a rolling basis (as detailed in 4.6.2 of the report), with the development of the programme delegated to the City Needs Assessment Steering Group.