Sub-ICB Locations: Health Administrative Boundaries for England

England's digital vector boundaries for Sub-Integrated Care Board (Sub-ICB) Locations. The dataset contains the Full Extent of the Realm (BFE) boundaries, incorporating intellectual property from both the Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics. It is available via multiple geospatial web services, including a REST FeatureServer and a WFS server.

Use Cases

• Mapping health service catchment areas based on Sub-ICB Location boundaries.
• Spatial analysis of health outcomes or resource distribution across Sub-ICB administrative units.
• Integrating health boundary data with other demographic or point-of-care datasets for regional planning.

Strengths

• Contains boundaries from authoritative sources: Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.
• Available via multiple access methods, including a REST FeatureServer and a WFS server, facilitating integration.
• Represents a specific, standardized administrative geography for the English National Health Service.

Limitations

• Metadata completeness is low: column names, row counts, file sizes, and license details are not provided.
• There is a conflict in the temporal reference of the data: sources cite boundaries 'as at July 2022' and 'as at April 2026'.
• The spatial coverage is limited to England only, excluding other UK nations.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics (UK), Ordnance Survey

Collection Method

Official digital vector boundary production.

Time Range

2022-07 to 2026-04

Freshness

2026-04-22

Geography

England