Identification

Title

NHS Health Boards

Alternative title(s)

NHS Board Boundaries 2018

Abstract

Delivery of frontline healthcare services in Scotland are the responsibility of 14 regional National Health Service (NHS) Boards that report to the Scottish Government. Current boundaries of NHS Health Boards in Scotland are defined by National Health Service (Variation of Areas of Health Boards) (Scotland) Order 2013 (SSI 2013/347), which came into force on April 1st 2014, and replaces the previous definition based upon the former Regions and Districts of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. This change was made in order to re-align Health Boards with the combined area of each Local Authority that they serve. Subsequent changes to Local Authorities will result in corresponding amendments to Health Board boundaries in order to maintain alignment.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://sedsh127.sedsh.gov.uk/arcgis/services/ScotGov/HumanHealthSafety/MapServer/WMSServer?

protocol: OGC:WMS

name: NHS Health Boards

description: OGC View Service

http://sedsh127.sedsh.gov.uk/arcgis/services/ScotGov/HumanHealthSafety/MapServer/WFSServer?

protocol: OGC:WFS

name: NHS_Health_Boards

description: OGC Feature Download Service

http://sedsh127.sedsh.gov.uk/arcgis/rest/services/ScotGov/HumanHealthSafety/MapServer/0

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: NHS Health Boards

description: ESRI REST Service

http://sedsh127.sedsh.gov.uk/Atom_data/ScotGov/HumanHealthSafety/SG_HumanHealthSafety.atom.en.xml

protocol: INSPIRE-ATOM

name: Human Health and Safety

description: ATOM Download Service

http://sedsh127.sedsh.gov.uk/Atom_data/ScotGov/ZippedShapefiles/SG_NHS_HealthBoards_2019.zip

protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

name: NHS Health Boards

description: ESRI Shapefile Download

Unique resource identifier

code

SG_NHS_HealthBoards

codeSpace

www.gov.scot

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

EPSG

code identifying the spatial reference system

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

boundaries

health

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Human health and safety

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Health, well-being and care

National Health Service

originating controlled vocabulary

title

IPSV - Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary version 2

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2008-06-03

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.8

East bounding longitude

-0.71

North bounding latitude

60.87

South bounding latitude

54.63

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

ISO 3166-2

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2007-12-13

code identifying the extent

GB-SCT

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

1974-04-01

date type

revision

effective date

2019-09-20

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

The boundaries of Health Boards were originally constituted by The National Health Service (Determination of Areas of Health Boards) (Scotland) Order 1974 (SI 1974/266), by reference to Region, District and Islands Area local authorities which were defined in the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. An amendment to that order was made in 2006 (SSI 2006/33) to allow the abolition of Argyll & Clyde Health Board. Since Health Boards were based on groups of the Local Government Regions and Districts that existed before the introduction of Council Areas in 1996, there arose cases where Health Boards crossed Council boundaries. The areas affected by this were Ardoch, Moodiesburn, and Rutherglen (Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Highland, and Lanarkshire Health Boards). A number of minor discrepancies also existed due to the underlying source data (e.g. digitising at various scales, or currency of products used). As a result of these discrepancies, the decision was made to re-align Health Boards with Local Authorities. This was enacted by the National Health Service (Variation of Areas of Health Boards) (Scotland) Order 2013 (SSI 2013/347), which states that the extent of each board matches the combined areas of the Local Authorities that they serve. Subsequent changes to Local Authorities by formal administrative review will result in a corresponding change to Health Boards. A summary of amendments affecting Health Boards is as follows: Effective 2006-01-04 (SSI 2006/33): • Abolition of Argyll and Clyde Health Board Effective 2014-01-04 (SSI 2013/347): • Re-alignment to Local Authority Boundaries Effective 2018-02-02 (SSI 2017/430): • Keltybridge and Fife Envirnonmental Energy Park at Westfield Effective 2019-04-01 (SSI 2018/308): • Local Authority boundary change at Cardowan This digital dataset is coterminous with Local Authority boundaries as defined by Ordnance Survey (BoundaryLine, pre-release May 2019), and was created by aggregating Local Authority boundaries up to their corresponding Health Board. The dataset has not been clipped to the mean high water mark. The dataset is managed by the Scottish Government's Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team (GI-SAT), who carry out any required updates with the advice of the Health and Social Care Integration Directorate.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

WMS

version of format

1.3.0

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

No limitations on public access

Constraint set

Use constraints

The following attribution statement must be used to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright Scottish Government, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (insert year)

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team

organisation name

Scottish Government

full postal address

Victoria Quay

Edinburgh

EH6 6QQ

United Kingdom

email address

GI-SAT@gov.scot

responsible party role

publisher

Responsible party

contact position

Directorate for Health and Social Care Integration

organisation name

Scottish Government

full postal address

St Andrews House, Regents Road

Edinburgh

EH1 3DG

United Kingdom

email address

graeme.aitken@gov.scot

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team

organisation name

Scottish Government

full postal address

Victoria Quay

Edinburgh

EH6 6QQ

United Kingdom

email address

GI-SAT@gov.scot

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2019-09-24

Metadata language

eng