East Renfrewshire HSCP Strategic Needs Assessment & Market Position Statement
Client
East Renfrewshire HSCP
Location
East Renfrewshire, Scotland
Year
Feb 2025 - Ongoing
This commission supports East Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership to develop a robust, evidence‑based Strategic Needs Assessment and Market Position Statement to inform an All‑Age Commissioning Strategy.
The work combines extensive quantitative analysis of population, service, performance, and inequality data with a structured programme of facilitated workshops, ensuring that local intelligence, professional insight, and strategic priorities are fully integrated with the analytical evidence base.
Through this approach, the work establishes a clear, shared understanding of current and future need, system pressures, and opportunities for prevention and service redesign across the HSCP’s priority themes. The resulting outputs provide practical, actionable insights for decision‑makers, shaping future commissioning intentions and supporting sustainable market development aligned to local priorities and available resources.
Approach
Our approach combines rigorous, end‑to‑end data analysis with structured engagement to build a shared understanding of need, priorities, and future direction. Quantitative evidence is tested and refined through facilitated workshops, ensuring that the final outputs are analytically robust, locally grounded, and directly relevant to commissioning and decision‑making.
Integrated evidence base
Bringing together local and national data to analyse current and future need, inequalities, and system pressures across HSCP priorities.
Strategic sense‑making
Using structured, facilitated workshops to test analysis, capture local intelligence, and identify strengths, gaps, and drivers for change.
Commissioning and market insight
Translating evidence into clear Strategic Needs Assessment and Market Position Statement outputs to support commissioning decisions and market shaping.
Looking ahead...
The next phase of the work will build on the analytical and engagement foundations already established. Forthcoming facilitated workshops will be used to complete the SWOT‑based gap analysis and agree key drivers for change, providing a clear basis for prioritisation across the HSCP’s priority themes. This will then be translated into a focused set of delivery and commissioning priorities, culminating in the development of a Market Position Statement that clearly signals future demand, commissioning intent, and opportunities for providers and partners.