Putting the community at the heart of local service development is a key benefit that strategic commissioning will deliver.

However, both as a partnership, and as individual organisations responsible for delivering public services, we cannot claim to be meeting the needs of the community without a firm understanding of what those needs are, based on a robust, consistent, and accurate evidence base about Leicestershire.

The outputs of the Analyse stage are therefore fundamental not just to strategic commissioning, but to every aspect of our day to day business.

• What are the outcomes you can expect during the analyse phase? (word doc)
• Stakeholder mapping (word doc)
• Needs Analysis (word doc)
• Identifying Commissioning Priorities (word doc)

Examples of needs analysis that Leicestershire Together are currently using to deploy their resources include:

• This is Leicestershire (overall evidence base, October 2008)
• Places in Leicestershire (locality specific, December 2009)
• Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (Health, September 2009)
• Leicestershire’s Economic Assessment (pending, February 2009)