Kingston’s 2023 JSNA
Healthwatch Kingston are proud to say that our engagement work with Kingston residents has helped to feed into the 2023 JSNA.
Local authorities and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have equal and joint statutory duties to prepare a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment through the Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB). The JSNA informs Kingston’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy which is also owned by the Health and Wellbeing Board.
The JSNA is used to inform and guide commissioning intentions across health, wellbeing, and social care services so that they will achieve better health and wellbeing outcomes.
It aims to communicate key messages to a wide audience including staff from Local Authority and the NHS, elected members, including senior decision makers and service commissioners, local service providers, Voluntary and Community sector providers, residents and the general public.
Kingston’s Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2017-2019 provides Kingston residents and organisations with a picture of what the Health and Wellbeing Board, through its members and wider partners, will need to deliver over the next two years and how we will work together to achieve this. The Kingston Health and Wellbeing Board has agreed to focus on the following four priority areas where we believe that by working together we will make the most difference:
- Children and young people
- Mental health
- Older people and people with long-term conditions
- Addressing the needs of socially excluded and disadvantaged communities
These priority areas were identified in the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment.
