The Kennet and Avon Canal runs for 65km across the beautiful Wiltshire countryside and is the workplace and home of the Boating Community. We realised we knew very little about this seldom heard community. To begin to address this, the Public Health Team in September 2023 organised a canal walk and survey this saw 40 […]
Healthy Ageing Health and Wellbeing Needs Assessment
Globally there is an ageing population, between 2015 and 2050, the proportion of the world’s population aged 60+ will nearly double from 12% to 22%. An ageing population will result in an increase in rates of dementia, disability and frailty affecting individuals, their families, carers and wider society, and the impact on health and social […]
Wiltshire Health Protection Report 2022
The annual Health Protection report seeks to provide assurance to the Health and Wellbeing Board of the systems and measures in place to protect the public’s health from threats and hazards. It also captures the key issues identified and activities undertaken by a range of local, regional and national partners involved in supporting the Wiltshire […]
Learning Disabilities and Autism Health Needs Assessment
Adults with learning disabilities and autism are a population group in Wiltshire where little is known about their specific health and wellbeing needs. To date there has been no Health Needs Assessment undertaken focusing on this population group in Wiltshire. Following the Covid-19 pandemic where the most vulnerable population groups in society have been disproportionately […]
Self-Harm Insight Report
Current understanding of the local prevalence of self-harm is largely based upon emergency hospital admissions data for intentional self-harm. This is provided by Bath and Northeast Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) Integrated Care Board. Data from the Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF) has highlighted Wiltshire as a national statistical outlier in comparison to other […]
Wiltshire Public Health Priorities 2022-2032
Food Insecurity in Wiltshire 2023
What do we mean by food insecurity? The Food Standards Agency (FSA) defines food insecurity as: ‘Limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable food in socially acceptable ways (e.g., without resorting to emergency supplies, scavenging, stealing or other coping strategies).’ Food insecurity is a […]
Technical Guidance
This technical guidance is designed to support the interpretation of the data presented in the Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and the intelligence reports and needs assessments found in the library. It covers common acronyms and abbreviations, some technical terminology and statistical methods. Download slides as PDF
Substance Use Health Needs Assessment
The Substance Use Health Needs Assessment reviews the county’s drug and alcohol prevalence, risk factors, impact, current provision and recommendations. The development of this HNA has been led by Wiltshire Public Health and utilised various methods including; national and local data analysis and primary research. The information gathered provides a picture of the population of […]
Understanding the Impacts of Homelessness in Wiltshire – Health Needs Assessment
Homelessness is not just a housing problem – it can be caused by a multitude of social, individual and economic factors. As a complex issue, it often occurs because of a combination of events, such as relationship breakdown, debt, adverse experiences in childhood, as well as ill health. The problem of homelessness is multi-faceted and […]