Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

Health and wellbeing in Bracknell Forest

Last updated

10 November 2026

Welcome to Bracknell Forest's Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

This is the first version of our new JSNA, from the Public Health team and its partners. It takes a population health approach, looking at everyone in the borough and what shapes their health. It's there to help all those working to improve health across our neighbourhoods decide where to focus. We'll keep adding to it and improving it, and what you tell us will help shape what comes next.

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What would you like to know?

Evidence on health and wellbeing in Bracknell Forest, from the Public Health team and its partners. Ask a question in your own words, or browse the topics.

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How the JSNA is organised

The wider determinants of health

About Bracknell Forest

Who lives here, the conditions that shape health at every age, and how health and inequality vary across the borough.

Stage of life

Start Well

Health and wellbeing from pregnancy through childhood and the teenage years.

Stage of life

Live Well

Adult health, the risks we can prevent, long-term conditions, and groups who face more barriers.

Stage of life

Age Well

Healthy ageing, staying independent and connected, and care in later life.

How do we compare?

Every measure compared with England, across all the topics.

Every topic at a glance

How do we compare?

Every measure Fingertips compares between Bracknell Forest and England, in one place, grouped by topic. A quick way to see where we're worse than England, similar or better.

See how we compare

Neighbourhood profiles

Every measure for North, Central and South in one place.

Three neighbourhoods

Neighbourhood profiles

We have grouped the borough's 15 local areas into three neighbourhoods: North, Central and South. Each profile shows everything we have for one neighbourhood, from who lives there to the strategy's aims. It uses the same data as the topic pages. A figure for the whole borough is an average, and an average can hide real gaps between places. The profiles help to show them.

North 44,344 residents in 5 local areas Central 57,354 residents in 6 local areas South 29,108 residents in 4 local areas

15 local areas

Local area profiles

The three neighbourhoods are made up of 15 local areas. Each has its own profile: where it is, who lives there, how deprived it is, and every measure we have for it.

See all 15 on one map
Binfield & PopeswoodChavey Down & North Ascot WestCrown WoodWick HillWinkfield & CranbourneBirch Hill & Hanworth EastBullbrookCentral Bracknell & WildridingsGreat HollandsHanworth WestPriestwoodCollege TownCrowthorne SouthOwlsmoor & BroadmoorSandhurst

Primary care networks

How do neighbourhoods and local areas relate to PCNs?

GP practices work together in primary care networks (PCNs). A PCN is a group of practices, not an area, so PCNs don't line up with neighbourhoods or local areas.

Residents registered with a GP, 1 October 2026

  • The Health Triangle 36.4%
  • Bracknell and District 27.5%
  • Braccan 22.3%
  • Ascot 7.6%
  • Woosehill & Crowthorne 2.4%
  • Yateley 1.5%
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Residents: ONS small area population estimates, mid-2024.

The Health and Wellbeing Board

Progress against the borough’s strategy, and the Board’s current priorities.

Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2026 to 2036

Are we making progress?

The Health and Wellbeing Board tracks 18 measures against its strategy, Improving Health Together. Each has a starting point, a target and an ambition for 2036. The figures update as new data is published.

Explore the strategy Open the strategy dashboard Read the strategy PDF
Show progress at a glance
1 of 18 measures have reached their target
8 of 18 have a newer figure than the strategy's baseline
0 of 18 have clearly moved towards their target since the baseline

Current Board priorities

Each priority links to its topic page and to its deep dive from the first phase of the JSNA.

Recently updated

The pages added or changed most recently.

Show the 6 most recently updated pages

Browse the topics

Find topics by group of people or by theme, or see every topic from A to Z.

Groups of people with particular health needs. The group tags on each topic page link here.

Expectant and new parents 6 pages

Children and families 16 pages

Children and young people with SEND 5 pages

Care-experienced children and young people 4 pages

Young people 15 pages

Older people 20 pages

Unpaid carers 8 pages

Disabled people 17 pages

People with learning disabilities 6 pages

People with mental health conditions 13 pages

Ethnic minority groups 15 pages

Refugees and migrants 5 pages

People on low incomes 21 pages

Routine and manual workers 1 page

People experiencing homelessness 5 pages

Themes that run across several topics, such as physical activity. The theme tags on each topic page link here.

Commercial determinants of health 6 pages

Physical activity 9 pages

Heart health and stroke 7 pages

Food and nutrition 9 pages

Violence and abuse 6 pages

Every topic in the JSNA, from A to Z: 39 in all.