NHS England Regional Boundaries, December 2023

December 2023 boundaries for NHS England Regions, provided as digital vector data. The dataset contains full-resolution boundaries clipped to the coastline and is published by the Office for National Statistics. It contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Map healthcare service regions based on the provided NHS England boundaries.
• Conduct spatial joins with health statistics based on the defined regional polygons.
• Perform boundary analysis for regional planning based on the full-resolution coastline-clipped vectors.

Strengths

• Boundaries are current as of a specific date (December 2023).
• Data is provided in full resolution (BFC) clipped to the coastline.
• Contains intellectual property from authoritative sources (Ordnance Survey and ONS).

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

Time Range

December 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 12:07:42.285961; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England