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Needs Assessments

Key insights for Bury’s health & wellbeing

Discover Bury’s Needs Assessments—comprehensive reports on local health and wellbeing. Use these insights to inform decisions, plan services, and improve lives in our community. Click to explore the latest data.

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Drugs & Alcohol Needs Assessment

Discover the latest Drugs and Alcohol Needs Assessment for Bury—a comprehensive data pack that highlights the current trends, challenges, and opportunities in tackling substance misuse across our community.

This assessment brings together key statistics on prevalence, treatment access, hospital admissions, and the wider social and economic impact of drugs and alcohol in Bury.

Whether you’re a professional, policymaker, or resident, use this resource to understand local needs, inform service planning, and support effective interventions.

Click below to explore the evidence and help shape a healthier Bury for everyone.

See the Drugs & Alcohol Needs Assessment Data Pack
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2020

Sexual Health Needs Assessment

OLDHAM, ROCHDALE AND BURY

https://theburydirectory.co.uk/storage/9749/Sexual-Health-Needs-Assessment.pdf
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2022

SEND Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

Bury is committed to improving education, health and care services with strategic partners, parent carers and our children and young people. We have worked collaboratively with key local stakeholders to create our JSNA) for SEND. The SEND JSNA contains a wide range of information to build an accurate understanding of the needs of children and young people who have SEND in Bury.

https://theburydirectory.co.uk/storage/12734/Bury-SEND-JSNA_v5.pdf
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September 2024

SEND Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (Refresh)

A refreshed version of the SEND Joint Strategic Needs Assessment, published September 2024.

https://theburydirectory.co.uk/storage/12887/Analysis-for-JSNA-&-Priority-Action-Plan.pdf
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2023

Young Peoples Sexual Health Needs Assessment 2023

This sexual health needs assessment (SHNA) has been conducted to understand the sexual health needs of young people aged under 25 years old living in Bury and determine how effectively the current services are working to meet those needs.

https://theburydirectory.co.uk/storage/11944/Bury-Report---YPSHNA--23.pdf
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2022 - 2025

Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment

The Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) is a crucial part of the market entry system, and supports commissioning decisions based on patient needs, it is important that Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs) prepare PNAs to national comparable standards. The HWB has a duty to produce a Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment every three years

Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment
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2024

Military Veterans’ Health Needs Assessment

The purpose of this needs assessment is to describe the demographics of the veteran population in Bury, summarise the available evidence on veterans’ health, highlight areas where veterans experience disproportionately worse health than the wider population and recommend actions for healthcare providers and their partners in Bury to address areas of increased healthcare need.

https://theburydirectory.co.uk/storage/12568/Health-Needs-Assessment-v6-(002).pdf