Sub-ICB Locations: England's Health Administrative Boundaries

Digital vector boundaries for Sub-Integrated Care Board (Sub-ICB) Locations in England, available for at least two snapshots: July 2022 and April 2026. The data provides full-resolution boundaries, typically following the Mean Low Water mark but extending to include offshore islands in some cases. It contains intellectual property rights from both Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.

Use Cases

• Mapping health service catchment areas based on the official Sub-ICB boundaries.
• Analyzing changes in administrative health regions between the 2022 and 2026 snapshots.
• Integrating health statistics with geographic information systems using the provided vector data.
• Visualizing the spatial extent of healthcare commissioning bodies for policy reports.

Strengths

• Provides boundaries for two specific time points (July 2022 and April 2026), enabling temporal analysis.
• Contains high-resolution 'Full Extent of the Realm' (BFE) boundaries, including offshore islands.
• Originates from authoritative sources: the Office for National Statistics and Ordnance Survey.

Limitations

• Key metadata is missing or conflicting: row counts, file sizes, and specific column names are not provided.
• The 'last updated' metadata field (2026-04-29) appears to be a system timestamp, not the actual data creation date for the future April 2026 snapshot.
• Documentation on the specific attributes (columns) within the boundary files is absent from the provided descriptions.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics (ONS), incorporating Ordnance Survey intellectual property.

Collection Method

Official digital vector boundaries produced for administrative purposes.

Time Range

July 2022 to April 2026 (snapshots)

Freshness

The dataset includes a future-dated snapshot for April 2026, alongside a historical snapshot from July 2022.

Geography

England, including its offshore islands.