Comparing apples with oranges? How to make better use of evidence from the voluntary and community sector to improve health outcomes
- Author:
- NHS CONFEDERATION
- Publisher:
- NHS Confederation
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 12
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing shows how using evidence from the voluntary and community sector enhances Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and helps commissioning decisions that better meet the needs of local populations. It gives an overview of the knowledge, expertise and insight that voluntary and community sector organisations hold about their local communities and diverse groups of people within these, as well as the different ways this knowledge can be used to enhance Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNAs) and commissioning. Drawing on examples from around the country, it aims to support health and wellbeing boards in thinking about the way they currently use voluntary and community sector evidence and to help them consider the different ways they could be using it. (Edited publisher abstract)
- Subject terms:
- voluntary sector, commissioning, joint working, co-production, evidence-based practice, needs assessment, collaboration, health needs, community centres, community groups;
- Content type:
- practice guidance
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- Series name:
- Briefing
- Series no:
- 273