The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) is an assessment of the current and future health and social care needs of the people of Ealing. This helps to inform the future planning of local services. Responsibility for the JSNA sits with the local Health and Wellbeing Board
Additional Ealing-related data and insights can be found via Ealing Data
Ealing's JSNA chapters as well as related documents and resources:
The JSNA plays an important role in planning and prioritising future services. The JSNA is used to:
- provide a comprehensive picture of the health and wellbeing needs of Ealing (now and in the future)
- assist the council and our partners design, commission and deliver services
- help reducing health inequalities between communities
- support better service delivery across all
- give an evidence base for the Ealing's Health and Wellbeing Strategy, which sets the top health priorities for the borough (managed through the Health and Wellbeing Board)
Ealing Health Inequalities Dashboard
The dashboard is an interactive tool to understand key aspects of health inequalities data that affect communities in the borough. It has been developed as a response to feedback from residents during and following the COVID-19 pandemic, and also through the development of Together in Ealing, the health and wellbeing strategy for 2023-2028, that they would like more transparent sharing of data on health inequalities.
The dashboard should help community members access more timely and granular information about inequalities in the borough, empowering them to take community action on inequalities, and strengthening bids for VCS funding.
We hope it will also be useful for all partners in the local health and care system.
The dashboard includes data on:
- specific health conditions
- some of the building blocks of health (the life conditions underlying health inequalities)
- access to healthcare services
Where possible, the dashboard also looks at variations by age, sex, ethnicity, and geographical location in the borough (ward or town level) in order to describe inequalities. We intend to update the data on a quarterly basis.
What does "health inequalities" mean?
Health inequalities are the differences in health status between people or communities. This is usually measured through lifespan, the presence of disease and other instances of ill-health which could be explained by differences in:
- living and working conditions
- education
- income
- access to quality health care and disease prevention
Many of these factors are largely beyond individual control and can be addressed through public policy.