Unitary Authority to Local Health Board Lookup for Wales, December 2023

Government Digital Service provides a lookup file mapping unitary authorities to local health boards in Wales as of 31 December 2023. The dataset includes four text fields with specified maximum lengths. It is available in multiple formats including CSV and GEOJSON.

Use Cases

• Join health statistics to administrative geographies based on the provided lookup codes.
• Map healthcare service boundaries in Wales based on the relationship between unitary authorities and local health boards.
• Validate data integration between administrative and health datasets using the UA23CD and LHB23CD fields.

Strengths

• Provides a specific snapshot date (31 December 2023) for temporal accuracy.
• Field lengths are explicitly defined (9, 17, 9, 41 characters), suggesting structured data.
• Available in multiple formats, including geospatial (GEOJSON, KML) and tabular (CSV).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2023-11 27 11:11:42.030000; freshness should be verified for current use.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely an official administrative record or gazetteer.

Time Range

As at 31 December 2023

Freshness

Data reflects boundaries as of 31 December 2023; metadata last updated 27 November 2023.

Geography

Wales