NHS England Region and Local Office Names and Codes as of April 2017

NHS Digital's Organisation Data Service provides the official names and codes for NHS England (Region, Local Office) administrative geography entities, effective 1 April 2017. This file includes two new NHSRLOs: NHS England North (Cumbria and North East) and NHS England North (Lancashire and South Cumbria). The dataset was last updated on the platform in October 2022.

Use Cases

• Standardizing geographic references in health service datasets based on NHSRLO codes.
• Mapping health service provision or outcomes across NHS England regional offices.
• Linking patient or facility records to administrative geography for regional analysis.
• Validating the correct use of NHS England (Region, Local Office) entity names in systems.

Strengths

• Provides official codes and names from the authoritative NHS Organisation Data Service.
• Specifies a clear snapshot date of 1 April 2017 for the organizational structure.
• Explicitly documents the inclusion of two new NHSRLO entities created at that time.

Limitations

• Data reflects the organizational structure from April 2017; freshness should be verified for current use.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale joins.
• Column-level documentation is limited; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Organisation Data Service, NHS Digital, on behalf of NHS England.

Collection Method

Administrative update to organization role names.

Time Range

Snapshot as of 1 April 2017.

Freshness

Last updated 2022-10-19 14:00:51.418000; data snapshot is from 2017.

Geography

England (NHS England regions and local offices).