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Issues
Overview: The Council and the PCT have worked in partnership over a number of years, in advance of JSNA, to identify and analyse the major health and well-being issues facing the borough, and jointly appointed to the post of Director of Public Health. In 2007, before JSNA was fully established, the Council and PCT undertook a major engagement/awareness-raising exercise with local people, and identified the early priorities for JSNA in Blackburn with Darwen, as set out below.
Early issues for JSNA: Analysis of both data and feedback from stakeholders identified the following as key areas for early focus in JSNA:
- the future needs of older people
- lifestyle issues, including: obesity, smoking and alcohol.
The outcomes from work on these early issues are described below.
These issues are underpinned by the early messages from data as reflected in the ‘Story of health and well-being in Blackburn with Darwen', which identified: deprivation, diversity, wellbeing and lifestyle as key areas of concern.
The Local Area Agreement (LAA): focussing on the local issues. The Local Strategic Partnership has engaged intensively during late 2007 and early 2008 with the issue: what are the priorities for local people, to include in our new LAA. The areas selected for focus, drawn from the government’s new National Indicator Set, include a wide range of health and well-being issues, as well as a focus on non-care issues (e.g. transport) which, whilst not directly health related, have a major impact on the well-being of local people. View the new LAA targets.
Issues emerging mid-2008 from the JSNA workstreams: As the JSNA programme gets underway some early issues are now becoming evident:
- Older people: The findings of the work undertaken by the Institute of Public Care (IPC) in early 2008 were reported in May 2008. The results will be contained in their Anticipating Future Needs IPC Report for local older people. The key issues, identified earlier, for older people are in the Older People’s Strategy.
- Mental health: A major Mental Health Needs Assessment is under way, from May 2008, and the issues emerging from it will be identified here, once the findings are known.
- Lifestyles: in order to address the ‘lifestyles’ issues identified as an early concern in JSNA, the PCT commissioned the ‘Doctor Foster’ organisation to explore ways to engage local people, e.g. through a ‘social marketing’ campaign.
- Other issues: as the JSNA process expands, and further issues emerge, the findings will be posted in this section of the website.
Next steps: autumn 2008 stock-take: The issues emerging from both quantitative analysis (from data, figures) and qualitative analysis (from what local people tell us) will continue to be posted on this website, on an ongoing basis. This web-based analysis will be supplemented by an annual JSNA ‘stock-take’ process, in which the key issues are pulled together in a single written report, with recommendations for action, and presented to the Council/PCT Partnership Board, and to the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP).
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