Public Health England Centre Boundaries for July 2015

Digital vector boundaries for Public Health England Centres in England as of July 2015. The dataset contains five versions of the boundaries at different resolutions and clipping extents, ranging from full resolution to ultra generalised. It is provided by the Office for National Statistics and contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Map health service jurisdictions based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Perform spatial analysis of health data at the Public Health England Centre level based on the administrative units.
• Create simplified visualizations for reports using the generalised (20m, 200m, 500m) boundary versions mentioned in the description.
• Integrate administrative health boundaries with other geospatial datasets for England.

Strengths

• Provides five distinct boundary versions (full resolution to ultra generalised) for different use cases.
• Specific file sizes are listed for each version, ranging from 60 KB to 11 MB.
• Contains authoritative intellectual property from Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is a snapshot from July 2015; temporal coverage is limited to that single point in time.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Derived from Ordnance Survey data, likely digitized and generalized for administrative use.

Time Range

July 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:19.293911; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England