NHS England Regional Health Boundaries from April 2017

Digital vector boundaries for NHS England (Regions) as of 1 April 2017, reflecting a formal name change for commissioning regions. The dataset contains five resolution versions, from full to ultra generalised, each clipped to the coastline. Contains Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Mapping NHS England regional jurisdictions based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Analyzing healthcare service coverage areas based on the 2017 administrative geography.
• Integrating health region data with other geospatial layers using the coastline-clipped boundaries.
• Creating simplified visualizations using the generalised (20m, 200m, 500m) boundary versions.

Strengths

• Provides boundaries for a specific snapshot date (1 April 2017).
• Includes five distinct resolution versions, with file sizes ranging from 55 KB to 11 MB.
• Contains intellectual property from authoritative sources (Ordnance Survey and ONS).

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the 2017 snapshot date.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Formal confirmation and update from NHS England via the Organisation Data Service (NHS Digital).

Time Range

Snapshot as of 1 April 2017.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:35.718440; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England