Clinical Commissioning Groups Boundaries in England, April 2016

April 2016 digital vector boundaries for Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England, provided by the Office for National Statistics. The dataset contains five versions of the boundaries, including full-resolution and multiple generalised (20m, 200m, 500m) versions clipped to the coastline. It contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Mapping healthcare service areas based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Spatial analysis of health data aggregated to CCG regions based on the boundary files.
• Creating simplified (generalised) maps for visualization based on the 20m, 200m, and 500m resolution options.

Strengths

• Provides five distinct boundary versions, including full-resolution (28-35 MB) and generalised (3 MB to 184 KB) files for different use cases.
• Contains specific intellectual property rights information (Ordnance Survey and ONS).
• Offers multiple download formats (GEOJSON, CSV, KML, ZIP) and access via ArcGIS REST services.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is specific to April 2016 and may not reflect current administrative boundaries.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for some analyses.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Administrative boundary definition and digitization.

Time Range

April 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:22.044219; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England