The health and health care needs of the local population are assessed through a systematic process.

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Tips on searching the web:  ("needs assessment" OR "assessing need*" OR "assessing health need*" OR hna OR "joint strategic needs assessment") COMBINED WITH keywords reflecting the topic area you are focusing upon. To limit to NHS papers, try combining your results with: (pct OR "primary care trust" OR nhs) You can search for terms such as "board paper" / "strategy" to help to locate Trust papers   Also have a look at our summary of tips on searching the web and visit the Commissioning Specialist Library - a one-stop shop, providing timely and efficient access to high quality information resources for all those involved in commissioning.   Useful keywords for searching HMIC keywords: needs asessment; health needs assessment; care needs; health needs; joint working; strategic planning.

 

Needs assessment

Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and Needs assessment are amongst the Key topics from the Commissioning Specialist Library, give brief summaries and links to useful sources of information on subject areas relevant to commissioning.

 

NHS Information Centre

The Centre has developed an interactive wheel to depict the commissioning cyle. Click on the appropriate section oto access a range of resources provided to support this aspect of strategic planning.

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Excerpt from South West Public Health Observatory newsletter on World Class Commissioning and assessing need

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NHS Networks page on needs assessment

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Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

DH page including guidance, dataset, tools and resources, useful links, news and events

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JSNA - the APHO Resource Pack

Commissioned by the Department of Health, the Association of Public Health Observatories has been reviewing the data and information needs of the JSNA process. This work has resulted in the five-part APHO Resource Pack.

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JSNA - guidance

CSIP Networks -page with general guidance on producing a joint strategic needs assessment and translating the JSNA findings into commissioning intentions.

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Manage knowledge and assess needs

A range of useful resources on needs assessment, some of which have been developed for JSNA partnerships by the CSIP Better Commissioning Programme.

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Health Care Needs Assessment Reviews

The Health Care Needs Assessment series is a set of detailed reviews across a range of population-specific subjects areas, combining epidemiological and evidence-based research information and data. 

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Social marketing

One way of improving public health is for people to reduce behaviours that impair health and increase behaviours that enhances health

 

Public Health Social Marketing in England

Resources on social marketing from the Yorkshire & Humber Public Health Observatory.

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Ambitions for Health

A strategic framework from the Department of Health for maximising the potential of social marketing and health-related behaviour.

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National Social Marketing Centre

A social marketing resource centre  including a database of case studies from across NHS trusts.  

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Health Promotion Toolkit

A toolkit from County Durham and Darlington PCtsfor developing health information leaflets and posters. which embeds health literacy and social marketing principles in the process of developing health information publications and provides examples where new media may be more effective at reaching the intended audience.

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Population targeting - Tools for social marketing

A brief introduction to social marketing, with particular reference to the value of geodemographic segmentation systems for gaining customer insight and targeting interventions more effectively.

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Alcohol Social marketing toolkit (DH)

In response to the need identified in the research, the Department of Health is launching a new toolkit incorporating support tools, best practice examples and background information on its social marketing strategy and progress to-date.

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