October 2025 Updates

This post provides an update of new pieces of work produced in October 2025.

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October 2025 Updates

Recent pieces of work put onto the JSNA site in October include:

Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment 2025: a needs assessment to inform decisions and applications about new and existing pharmaceutical services in West Sussex.
West Sussex School Health Check: A collection of reports from a pilot health, wellbeing and lifestyle survey gathered from school children in West Sussex.
Young People’s Health Needs Assessment: a needs assessment exploring the health needs, attitudes, behaviours, barriers and drivers of young people accessing recreational and educational leisure-time activities in the county.

We hope to provide regular updates on new pieces of work completed and shared via the JSNA site.

October 2025 Updates

Recent pieces of work put onto the JSNA site in October include:

Young People's Health Needs Assessment

This young people’s health needs assessment focusses specifically on recreational and educational leisure-time activities, is part of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), and is in response to the statutory guidance for local authorities on services to improve young people’s wellbeing.

West Sussex School Health Check

Children and young people’s health and wellbeing are key public health priorities. Up-to-date data and information on the lives of children and young people is integral to WSCC and their ability to work with partner organisations to improve children and young people’s lives.

2025 West Sussex Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) now published

The 2025 West Sussex Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) has now been published.

Hyper local needs measure

The Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion (OCSI), in collaboration with the Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods (ICON) developed a ‘Hyper-local Need Index’ which assesses socio-economic challenges across small areas in England.

September 2025 Updates

Recent pieces of work put onto the JSNA site in September include:

Physical Activity Briefing

This briefing summarises levels of physical activity and inactivity across adults in West Sussex and how this has changed overtime, using data from Sport England’s Active Lives Adults Survey.

Sussex Public Health Outcomes Framework July 2025

The NHS Sussex Public Health Outcomes (POF) indicators data tool is an interactive report showing the latest outcomes framework indicators for NHS and local authority organisations across Sussex across 12 domains. Some indicators have demographic breakdowns by age or sex; for example, life expectancy at birth is reported for males and females separately).

Excess Weight in Childhood - National Child Measurement Programme

The rise of childhood obesity in England and the implications of obesity persisting into adulthood is a public health concern. Obesity in childhood can have a significant negative impact on the health and emotional wellbeing of children and young people. Obesity in adults is a risk factor for other health conditions such as type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke and some types of cancer and may also impact on mental health.

Excess weight in Childhood: National Child Measurement Programme 2023/24

Free School Meals in West Sussex: 2023/24 Academic Year

Income-based free school meals (FSM) aim to ensure disadvantaged school children have access to at least one healthy meal each day. Healthy, free meals at school help enable all children to have the same opportunities to learn and thrive, no matter where they grow up.

Coastal Communities: Benefit claims

In 2024, a Framework for Action to Reduce Health Inequalities in Coastal West Sussex was developed.

Thorney Island Briefing

Thorney Island is a peninsula in Chichester which contains the only regular armed forces base in West Sussex.

Thorney Island Briefing

Thorney Island is a peninsula in Chichester which contains the only regular armed forces base in West Sussex.

West Sussex Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2025 to 2030

The JSNA supports the Health and Wellbeing Board in its statutory duties and the development of the Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy. This support includes the JSNA Summary, the Community Health survey and various needs assessments.

Sexual Health Needs Assessment 2025

The West Sussex Sexual Health Needs Assessment 2025 aims to assess how the needs of the population in relation to sexual and reproductive health are being met in order to help plan services and inform wider actions to improve sexual health and wellbeing of the West Sussex population. This needs assessment forms part of the West Sussex Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA).

Census 2021: Household Deprivation in West Sussex

ONS uses a range of data collected in the 2021 Census to determine whether a household includes characteristics that indicate deprivation. The dimensions of deprivation used to classify households are based on four household characteristics:

Homelessness and housing support needs in West Sussex - Local data and intelligence briefing

Homelessness and insecure housing is an increasingly pressing issue across the West Sussex Health and Care system. A range of forums and partnership groups in West Sussex are leading work in this area, with many of these including health and wellbeing in temporary accommodation as a priority area.

West Sussex Postcode Lookup Tool: 2025 Edition

A new postcode look-up tool has been created to allow users to match a set of inputted postcodes to a range of geographies (e.g. LSOA, electoral ward, district/borough). This file contains approximately 61,000 postcodes in the West Sussex area and was last updated in April 2025.

Your Health Matters Survey 2024: Key Points

The Your Health Matters Survey sought to understand health behaviours at a local level following the pandemic.