NHS England Region Local Office Boundaries, April 2017

Digital vector boundaries for NHS England (Region, Local Offices) in England, as of 1 April 2017. The data is provided by the Office for National Statistics and contains five boundary resolutions, from full (12 MB) to ultra generalised (72 KB). Contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Mapping NHS regional administrative structures based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Health service planning and analysis based on the defined geographic regions.
• Integrating health boundary data with other geospatial datasets based on the coastline-clipped formats.

Strengths

• Provides five distinct boundary resolutions, from full (12 MB) to ultra generalised (72 KB).
• Boundaries are clipped to the coastline (Mean High Water mark) for multiple resolutions.
• Includes a specific snapshot date of 1 April 2017.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Derived from Organisation Data Service (NHS Digital) and Ordnance Survey data.

Time Range

Snapshot as of 1 April 2017.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:08.141230; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England