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Ordnance Survey is committed to supporting the wider health sector through greater use of our data. As you may already know, geographic intelligence is helping to power effective and confident health planning, implementation of strategy and service delivery within the whole of the health service including Department of Health, Health Protection Agency, Strategic Health Authorities, Primary Care Trusts, Health Observatories, Ambulance Trusts and Cancer Registries.

Among the many vital applications of using geographical data in the health sector are:

  • Supporting service planning and delivery; the identification of health inequalities, causal analysis and trends, supporting effective policies to reduce health inequalities; ensuring ease of access to new service provision through route time analysis. These factors can guide strategic decisions on the targeting of services to clinical hot spots, investment priorities, the extension of patient choice and the supply of health advice and public health services to the citizen. Health service managers can also use our data to support decision making on performance management;
  • Providing efficient emergency and patient transport services; within command and control and in cab systems to help locate incidents and route the best placed emergency vehicles to respond. Improving ambulance resource deployment and helping NHS Trusts to calculate optimum routes to collect, deliver and repatriate patients to their home in a timely and efficient manner; 
  • Additionally geographical data is being used to support estate planning, asset management, feasibility studies, environmental analysis and green energy conservation, national emergency planning and response, hazardous area response team (HART) services, crisis management, and fraud within the NHS.

The health sector is currently served by the NHS Digital Mapping Agreement (DMA) which is managed by the NHS Information Centre and continues to run until 30 April 2012. All those bodies that are entitled to join the DMA are entitled to join the PSMA from 1 April 2011. To find out more see our press release, PSMA FAQ's or contact the NHS Information Centre for Health.

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