Appendix B: Prioritisation criteria
The criteria in the list below were identified from a review of needs assessment prioritisation tools published online.
- Population need/magnitude/numbers affected
- Extent of the problem within local population
- Strength of evidence of effective interventions
- Scale of impact of actions on health
- Scale of inequality/opportunity to reduce inequality/improve equity
- Association with social deprivation/disadvantage
- Trend (worsening or improving over time)
- Current spend on treatment/management/potential savings
- Capacity to benefit/opportunity to intervene
- Opportunity for early intervention/upstream prevention
- Severity of issue on individuals/patients
- Strength of views from public/stakeholders/political acceptability
- Wider societal impacts of this health need/wider benefits to addressing
- Speed of potential improvement
- Availability of local needs assessment evidence (uncertainty of information)
- Cost-effectiveness of available interventions
- Overall likely costs to address the issue
- Requires partnership approach to effective intervention
- Problem provides opportunity to improve service quality/efficiency
- Opportunity to exercise local leadership/champion health and wellbeing
- National policy objective
- Capability of the market to provide services to address need
- Opportunity to improve patient choice
- Risk of not delivering against potential priority, if agreed
The following JSNA prioritisation processes were used to collate the list of criteria above:
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bristol
- City of London
- Coventry
- Devon
- Knowsley
- Nottinghamshire
- Portsmouth
- Stockton on Tees
- Warwick