It aims to help commissioners from across the Council, Clinical Commissioning Groups and other partners to understand the key health and wellbeing issues and tackle health inequalities. The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment is used as the evidence base for the St Helens Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
In order to determine the most pressing issues facing the borough a prioritisation process was developed to ensure that a broad range of issues were considered.
The St Helens Health profile is available on the publications page