Geospatial services (GIS)

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Providing consultancy and geospatial tools and solutions for solving complex problems in health and care.

Geospatial services

The SCW Geospatial Service team is the largest geospatial service across any of England’s NHSE regions and integrated care boards (ICB).

We currently support 20 ICBs across the South of England and three regional NHSE teams: South West, South East and London. We also support NHSE Central around the Covid/Flu vaccinations and immunisations programme, Dental and Pharmacy Commissioning and provide GIS services to a number of NHS Hospital Trusts.

Our Geospatial Service uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies to solve complex spatial problems. This supports ICBs to deliver better outcomes to their population at lower cost, including support for Primary Care management and development, workforce and estates reviews, population health management and health inequalities, service transformation projects, travel accessibility analysis, the Green Agenda and Carbon Net Zero.

Our SCW teams also work in collaboration, combining geospatial with other modelling capabilities.

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SCW geospatial applications combine the expertise of our team with the powerful mapping and analysis of Esri technologies to create interactive tools for use by NHS and partner healthcare organisation...

Data visualisation to get buy-in

Together - delivering with partners’ - hosted by NHS Providers

As the saying goes 'a picture tells a thousand words'.

On 9 December 2021, our panellists shared the details of how their organisations have used the power of visualising data to bring their projects and stories to life. They explore how this has supported decision making both within their organisation, and collaboratively across their systems. 

Case studies

Case Studies
Devising the optimal routing for GPs and nurses in Somerset to visit local housebound patients and provide COVID-19 vaccinations in the most efficient way. ...

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The Humber Acute Service Review (HASR) aims to deliver new models of care and infrastructure investment across a challenged health and care system. We were asked by HASR to provide geospatial and anal...

Case Studies
COVID-19 has been the single greatest public health emergency in the history of the NHS. As well as continuing to provide care for people who needed it, the NHS contributed to the important global eff...

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Using geospatial analysis to help the NHS vaccinate millions of people as quickly as possible

We are very proud to have been awarded the Analytical Insights award at the 2021 EsriUK Customer Success awards. 
Read more about the award.
Through our use of ArcGIS, we have supported the NHS to deliver a massive, coordinated effort and vaccinate millions of people in the UK in a planned and efficient way. Trevor Foster, Associate Director, Geographic Intelligence and Mapping Service, SCW

Customer testimonials and awards

A well organised, professional and highly responsive team who clearly wanted to help our local practices as part of the PCN COVID Vaccination programme, in planning large groups of vaccinations for housebound patients. The team engaged to understand the need and context and were quick to identify the key questions, data set, work through relevant information governance and technical details. Clarity was sought when needed and issues were addressed in a timely manner. A great outcome in a high paced programme!
Allison Nation
Associate Director – Digital Strategy, Somerset CCG
The GIS team assisted at short notice in allocating our 220 housebound patient groups into ordered geographical groups. With three practices and crossing over lists/geographical areas, it is a way in which housebound vaccinating can be organised without the need for agonising lists and cross-referencing between practices. They have risen to our last-minute demands with efficiency and professionalism. In short, the exercise has been time well spent.
Dr Sally di Mambro
GP principal/partner at Wellington Medical Centre/Taunton Deane West PCN
The SCW Geographic Intelligence and Mapping team have helped us move to a position of confidence in our primary care workforce data and having confidence in the data has enabled us to share it with practices and other stakeholders. We are now able to begin planning viable workforce strategies to address our workforce challenges. I have found the team to have exceptional skills in managing, combining and analysing complex sets of data, in mapping and presenting data in a number of engaging more visual ways, their response and patient style of working and their delivery of promised outputs.
Andy Hill
Head of Primary Care Development, Somerset CCG

Meet the team

Our dedicated NHS geospatial team has a wealth of experience having been in operation for over 20 years. We're a team of fifteen specialists, split across offices in Bristol and Sussex. 

We understand the changing requirements of the NHS and the organisations within it, have the flexibility to adapt to these needs, and crucially, have built up a depth of GIS expertise, experience and governance to have access to and fully utilise a comprehensive range of NHS datasets, across primary, secondary and mental health sectors (subject to the necessary IG clearance and DSAs between organisations).
Ian Maxfield
Ian Maxfield
Associate Head of Geographic Intelligence & Mapping Services
Trevor Foster
Trevor Foster
Associate Director - Geographic Intelligence & Mapping Services

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The Humber Acute Service Review (HASR) aims to deliver new models of care and infrastructure investment across a challenged health and care system. We were asked by HASR to provide geospatial and anal...

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Our support helped to ensure that patients and their views were at the centre of decisions about what happens because of a practice closure. Our geospatial team support made sure that patients from a ...

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We co-developed a modelling tool for long waits with Somerset ICS to clarify the activity levels that were needed to achieve their 78-week wait ambitions. The model identified areas of risk and challe...

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Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the UK and the second biggest cancer killer. Our geospatial team was engaged by Sussex Integrated Care System (ICS) to identify hotspots of low bowel s...

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The Pharmacy Access Scheme (PhAS) aims to ensure that a baseline level of patient access to NHS community pharmaceutical services in England is protected. Our geospatial team was engaged by the UK Dep...

Case Studies
The Humber Acute Service Review (HASR) aims to deliver new models of care and infrastructure investment across a challenged health and care system. We were asked by HASR to provide geospatial and anal...

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