Our data in action

Find out more about some applications of geographical information in the NHS that show its importance to health organisations.

NHS demonstrator

This takes you through a number of examples in which datasets are combined in location queries and statistical analysis in order better to provide local services, manage assets, devise routes and plan for contingencies.

How to use the demonstrator:

• Click on items in the bulleted lists in each slide to view relevant illustrations.
• Use the arrows in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen to view the next or previous slide.

Case studies

These case studies illustrate how Ordnance Survey's data is used in the health sector.

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Identifying links and trends

 Monitoring your patient registration spread  (350 Kb)

Interoperability

 Avon IM&T Consortium: Emergency Incident System (EIS)  (337 Kb)

Managing resources

 Improving ambulance resource deployment (400 kB)

 Sharing NHS information to reduce falling incidents among the elderly (879 kb)

 Examining the wider catchment of a hospital (308 Kb)

 Using GP Catchment area overlaps to identify service provision vulnerability (344 Kb)

 Underpinning the Health Equity Audit  (357 Kb)

 Defining GP boundaries in Sheffield (624 Kb)

 Improving patient care in East Kent (800 Kb)

 When every second counts (390 Kb)

Planning and publicising services

 Data cleansing using OS MasterMap Topography layer (1.11Mb)

 Understanding your patient base (357 Kb)

 Geographic information provides impact analysis on proposed changes to pharmacy provision (348 Kb)

 Using geography to inform decision making (496 Kb)

 Managing local health care information (1.03 Mb)

  Using GIS to highlight services affected by LIFT (761 Kb)

Policy effectiveness

 Measuring national health indicators to improve service provision (257 Kb)

 Interpreting the geography of dental health (836 Kb)

 Mapping aids Trust to help smokers to quit (182 Kb)

Reducing inequality

 Supporting effective policies to reduce health inequalities (91 Kb)

 Unveiling the hidden patterns of health inequality (307 Kb)

 Unveiling the hidden patterns of health inequality (194 Kb)

 Identifying gaps in palliative care provision (640 Kb)

 Analysing deprivation hotspots (2.29 Mb)

 Ensuring ease of access to new service provision (163 Kb)