NHS England Region Local Office Boundaries, Clipped to Coastline as of April 2017

Digital vector boundaries for NHS England (Region, Local Offices) in England, as at 1 April 2017. The dataset contains five boundary resolutions, from full resolution (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.
• Analyzing health service coverage areas based on the clipped coastline boundaries.
• Integrating health geography with other datasets based on the generalised boundary files for performance.
• Visualizing the spatial hierarchy of NHS England local offices for planning purposes.

Strengths

• Provides five specific boundary resolutions with stated file sizes (e.g., 1.5 MB for 20m generalised).
• Boundaries are temporally fixed to a specific snapshot date (1 April 2017).
• Includes both full extent and coastline-clipped versions for different analytical needs.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from 2017; administrative boundaries may have changed since the snapshot.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Digital vector boundaries provided by the Organisation Data Service, part of NHS Digital.

Time Range

Snapshot as of 1 April 2017.

Freshness

Last updated 2026 07 08 13:33:16.883992; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England