Clinical Commissioning Groups Boundaries for England, April 2016

Five digital vector boundary files for Clinical Commissioning Groups in England as of April 2016, provided by the Office for National Statistics. The dataset includes full-resolution, generalised (20m), super generalised (200m), and ultra generalised (500m) versions, clipped to the coastline. It contains Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Create thematic maps of health service provision based on CCG boundaries.
• Perform spatial analysis of health outcomes using CCG administrative units.
• Integrate CCG boundaries with population or health statistics for regional analysis.
• Generate simplified boundary files for web mapping applications based on the generalised versions.

Strengths

• Provides five levels of boundary generalisation, from full-resolution (35 MB) to ultra generalised (184 KB).
• Contains boundaries for all Clinical Commissioning Groups in England as of a specific date (April 2016).

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to uk_data.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

April 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:26.223740; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England