1. Newcastle Future Needs Assessment
Wellbeing and health open forum, 13 October 2011

2. What is NFNA?
A shared basis for identifying policy priorities, underpinning decision-making and targeting resources
Supported by definitive, shared data and evidence
For Newcastle, not just Newcastle City Council

3. What will it include?
Everything – but focused on issues we can collectively influence
A wide range of information to assist the process of understanding what's happening and developing priorities together (focused on the Local Information System)
Thought processes and applied experience and judgement – the essence of needs assessment is not the evidence, it’s what we do with the evidence

4. What are the benefits?
Proportionately greater benefits for genuine priorities
Information, evidence and thinking shared across partners in new ways
Better understanding of roles and impacts of all partners
Structured use of qualitative information
New relationships between actions and impacts
More than the sum of its parts

5. How will it be structured?
Based on a “life course” approach to ensure it is people focused
Set in the context of place – neighbourhoods, wards, the city
Tiered approach
Cross-cutting, headline level
Service-specific, operational level
Web-based with downloadable products

6. Who will be involved? Council PCT Clinical Commissioning Groups
Universities
Newcastle College
VCS
Police
Fire & Rescue
Newcastle Partnership

7. What could the VCS contribute?
Data and information
Community intelligence
Case studies and stories
Experience of what actually works (or doesn’t work) and “ground truth”

8. How could the VCS benefit?
Improved access to evidence, analysis and assessment
Improved understanding of VCS role and contribution via case studies etc
“Upstream” involvement in prioritising and shaping interventions
Through contribution of evidence
Through membership of the NFNA Board

9. What is the timetable? Relatively long-term
Variable by area of activity
Existing needs assessment work
Statutory requirements
Initial products should begin to be available spring 2012

10. Group discussion
What lessons from the JSNA process can we apply to NFNA to help enable VCS involvement?
How would VCS organisations prefer to get involved?
What would people like to get out of NFNA?