Department of Health trust boundaries

Five Health and Social Care Trust boundaries for Northern Ireland, derived from Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland data. The dataset was reviewed in 2017 and updated in February 2018, with the final version based on a large-scale 1993 Local Government Districts dataset to remove scale variations. It is provided by OpenDataNI under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Mapping healthcare service jurisdictions based on the five Health and Social Care Trusts.
• Analyzing regional health resource allocation based on administrative boundaries.
• Integrating health service data with geographic information systems based on the derived shapefile.

Strengths

• Defines boundaries for five specific Health and Social Care Trusts: Belfast, Northern, Southern, South Eastern, and Western.
• Derived from a large-scale source (LPS' 1993 Largescale Local Government Districts) to improve accuracy.
• Explicitly states a review and update process was completed in 2017, with a final version released in 2018.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Based on a 1993 administrative boundary dataset, which may not reflect recent geographic changes.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Collection Method

Derived from Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland (OSNI) and Land and Property Services (LPS) local government district boundary datasets.

Time Range

Boundary source data from 1993; dataset reviewed 2017, updated 2018.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:40.458061; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern Ireland