What the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) is
Find out more about the JSNA programme, JSNA annual reports, quarterly updates, what’s new and our 2023 JSNA review.
About JSNA
The JSNA provides a description of the current and future health, social care and wellbeing needs of the local population. This is achieved by collating a variety of evidence, including:
- information from existing in-depth needs assessments
- health and social care data
- local views and experiences
The JSNA is used to identify local health and wellbeing issues and inform the commissioning and delivery of local services.
This section includes various sections of the JSNA. If you need more information or have feedback about the JSNA, send an email to PublicHealthIntelligence@brighton-hove.gov.uk.
JSNA Annual Report and programme
In December 2025, the Health and Wellbeing Board reviewed our JSNA Annual Report 2025 and approved to extend the current programme by a year an approved the adjusted years 3 and 4 of JSNA rolling programme.
JSNA updates
Needs assessments published on the JSNA website between February 2026 to May 2026
Needs assessments published on the JSNA website between October 2025 and January 2026
- Whole City Healthy Weight - Annual Report of the Director of Public Health 2024
- Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) 2025
- The IMD shows which areas face the biggest challenges, looking at things like income, jobs, health, education, crime, housing and the environment. The latest figures are now live on Local Insight, where you can explore interactive maps or download dashboards.
- Equalities baseline data
- We’ve refreshed the data we use for Equalities Impact Assessments. This includes detailed information about our communities across all protected characteristics.
- Ward, Primary Care Network (PCN) and Integrated Community Team (ICT) profiles
- the Health Counts profiles for wards, PCNs and ICTs are now available.
- Audit of Drug Deaths 2024
Needs assessments published on the JSNA website between May 2025 and September 2025
- Public Health Annual Report 2024
- Health Counts
- Child poverty briefing
- JSNA Health and Wellbeing in Brighton & Hove Executive Summary
- JSNA Population in Brighton & Hove Executive Summary
- Brighton & Hove: Integrated Community Team (ICT) data profile - April 2025
- Strategic Assessment of Crime and Community Safety 2024
- REN Report
- Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment in Brighton & Hove Executive Summary
- Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment in Brighton & Hove (full report)
- Population groups summary statistics
Needs assessments published on the JSNA website between January 2025 and April 2025
- Evaluation of Multiple Compound Needs Programme and Evaluation of Multiple Compound Needs Programme - Executive Summary
- Healthy people: Dying well
- The following evidence reviews, available to download:
- Learning disabilities/difficulties and intersectionality in CYP evidence search
- Neurodiversity and intersectionality in CYP evidence search report
- SEND and intersectionality in children and young people
- Veterans' health evidence search 2023
Needs assessments published on the JSNA website between July 2024 and September 2024
- Hypertension signposting 2024
- Healthy places summary report
- Child poverty briefing
- Migration 2021 Census data infogram
- Ethnicity and languages 2021 Census data
- Religion, faith and belief 2021 Census data
- Long-term health condition or disability 2021 Census briefing
- Unpaid carers 2021 Census data
- Ex-service personnel data profile 2021 Census data
- Sex 2021 Census data
- Gender Identity and Trans, Non-Binary and Intersex (TNBI) people: 2021 Census data briefing
- Sexual orientation 2021 Census data
- Students 2021 to 2022 data
- Children in care data profile 2023 Census data
- Pregnancy and maternity data profile 2021 Census data
- Baseline data for Equality Impact Assessments Census data
- Synthesis - Gypsy Roma and Traveller health needs
Needs assessments published on the JSNA website between March 2024 and June 2024
Other needs assessment products published:
- 2024 JSNA executive summary as an infogram and PDF
- 2024 JSNA population summary as an infogram and PDF
- Gypsy Roma and Traveller health needs evidence search and results as a PDF
- Safe and Well at school survey 2023 summary as an infogram
- Chronic Respiratory Disease - signposting
Needs assessments published on the JSNA website between December 2023 and March 2024
Other needs assessment products published:
- City Profile (Census 2021) – City profile interactive Infogram or download as a PDF
- ICT Brighton and Hove data packs
Sussex wide products shared:
- Inclusion Health Groups SE datapack(produced by OHID)
Needs assessments published on the JSNA website between September 2023 and December 2023
Needs assessments published on the JSNA website between May 2023 and August 2023
Needs assessments published on the JSNA website between January 2023 and April 2023
- Mental Health and wellbeing 2022 Mental health and wellbeing in Brighton & Hove JSNA report and summary
- Cancer 2022 Cancer in Brighton & Hove
- Pharmaceutical needs assessments 2022
- Adults with Multiple Complex Needs 2020
JSNA review
From 2022 to 2023 we reviewed the JSNA/Local Intelligence information to ensure that it meets the needs of our stakeholders, including the public.
You can view the JSNA review stakeholder feedback. If you prefer, you can also see an infogram of the feedback.
Action plan to improve the JSNA
In July 2023, the Health and Wellbeing Board approved an action plan to improve the JSNA over the next 3 years. The review findings recommended the following 10 key areas where the JSNA programme can be strengthened:
1. Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) governance. Ensure oversight and assurance of the JSNA programme.
2. Working with East and West Sussex. Explore opportunities across Sussex to support the aims of the ICS and avoid duplication.
3. Engagement, involvement and co-production. Develop an inclusive engagement and involvement plan, building on good practice in in-depth needs assessments across the JSNA programme. Support the inclusion of intersectional equalities, and ensure we report back to communities.
4. JSNA production. Refine tools, templates and processes.
5. JSNA framework and products. Introduce the new framework for the JSNA with life course running throughout. Review of Community Insight.
6. Website and JSNA webpages. Redesign webpages and move to Brighton & Hove City Council website.
7. Accessibility of the JSNA website and products. Ensure JSNA content meets accessibility standards or accessible versions are available.
8. Promotion, communication and maximising use of the JSNA. Rebrand and rename the JSNA. Create how-to guides and videos, and a JSNA communications plan.
9. Explore the potential for additional resources to produce the JSNA, with a focus on qualitative research, coproduction, mixed research methods and community-led research.
10. JSNA needs assessments prioritisation process. Develop a 3-year work programme agreed on by the Health and Wellbeing Board with an annual review and update to the Health and Wellbeing Board.
Read the full report
Read the full report for the Health and Wellbeing Board as a PDF.
Read the full report for the Health and Wellbeing Board as an HTML (accessible version). Appendix 3 contains the full action plan.