Issue - meetings

Report of the Director of Public Health on the refresh of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) (PH/16/24), attached.

The full JSNA can be found at http://www.devonhealthandwellbeing.org.uk/jsna/overview/draft-2016/, but a copy is attached for Board Members.

The Board considered a report from the Director of Public Health (PH/16/24) on the updated Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) Devon Overview for 2016.

This Devon overview looked at the overall pattern of health and care needs in the county, including the impact of population change, deprivation and economic conditions.

The draft 2016 JSNA Devon Overview was also available at:

http://www.devonhealthandwellbeing.org.uk/jsna/overview/draft-2016/

JSNA Devon Overview 2016 used the same document structure as the 2015 overview and

Included updates to text, tables and figures. Although new information added in 2016 included:

·         a population overview for the new town of Cranbrook;

·         further breakdowns of outcomes measures by equality and diversity characteristics;

·         maps and deprivation analyses drawn from the 2016 JSNA area profiles;

·         an expanded deprivation section drawing on the Indices of Deprivation 2015;

·         further information in the Children, Young People and Families section on education, healthy lifestyles, disability, and children in care;

·         more information in the Older People section relating to healthy life expectancy, frailty, visual impairment, social isolation and loneliness, and end of life care; and

·         the main health and wellbeing challenges in Devon.

The document concluded with a summary of the main health and wellbeing challenges in Devon.  The challenges highlighted in the 2015 assessment remained, but there were an additional four challenges relating to new towns/developments, housing, loneliness and frailty.

It was important that the Board noted the importance of the outcomes work, as it drew together priorities from the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy and evidence from the Joint

Strategic Needs Assessment.

The Board noted the headline finding of the JSNA which showed a need to focus on mental health and associated services.

It was MOVED by Councillor Davis, SECONDED by Dr Pearson, and

RESOLVED that the draft Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) Devon Overview 2016 be noted.