Public Health England Centres: Names and Codes as of December 2020

Public Health England Centres names and codes for England as of 31 December 2020. The dataset includes four text fields: PHEC20CD, PHEC20CDH, PHEC20NM, and FID. It was published by the Government Digital Service and last updated on the platform in October 2022.

Use Cases

• Joining health data to administrative regions based on the provided centre codes.
• Mapping public health service boundaries in England using the geospatial codes.
• Validating or standardizing location identifiers in health datasets using the PHEC20CD field.

Strengths

• Provides a specific snapshot of administrative boundaries as of 31 December 2020.
• Includes both a 9-character code (PHEC20CD) and an 8-character code (PHEC20CDH) for each centre.
• Available in multiple geospatial and tabular formats, including CSV and GEOJSON.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Last updated 2022-10 19 14:51:30.353000; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Official publication process for the Open Geography portal.

Time Range

As at 31 December 2020.

Freshness

Data reflects boundaries from December 2020; metadata updated October 2022.

Geography

England