SHAPE links national data sets clinical analysis, public health, primary care and demographic data with information on healthcare estates performance and facilities location. The application also includes a fully integrated Geographical Information System mapping tool and supports travel time analysis.
The primary aim of the application is to facilitate scenario planning and option appraisal in support of STPs. Specifically, the SHAPE Place Atlas helps organisations consider the following:
- evaluation of the impact of service configuration on populations
- assess the optimum location of services
by providing:
- an accessible online tool for STP stakeholders
- key indicators and data about the STP with a focus on health inequalities and equity of service.
- flexible geographies including STP, CCG, LA, ward and LSOA
- a comprehensive overview of the STP’s NHS estate
- functionality to enable users to flexibly evaluate and test the impact of plans
- support for GP Primary Care Networks
Content and functionality
- Primary Care: GP practice and branch practice; Health Centres & Clinic; Pharmacy and GP dispensing practice
- Secondary Care: Hospital: Acute, Community or Specialist; Treatment / Intermediate Care Centre
- Other: Care homes; Children’s centre; Dental service; Mental health facility; Non-clinical administration & support; Optician
- Organisation: NHS Trust; NHS Property Services; LIFT
- Infrastructure: Ambulance service; Prison; Railway station; School
- Create temporary new site locations
- Basemaps: Ordnance Survey Open Data; satellite
- Demographics: Output Area Classification; Workplace zones; Fuel poverty
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Environment: Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea; Nitrogen Dioxide levels; Particulate Matter levels; Sulphur Dioxide levels
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Boundaries: LSOA; Postcode; Ward; Local Authority; CCG; Westminster constituency; STP
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Usage boundaries: Education sites; Medical Care sites; Open greenspace and access points
- Driving routes to nearest sites
- Index visible sites on map and cross-reference to listing
- Distance and boundary buffer visualisation
- Walk by time
- Walk by distance
- Cycle
- Car, including rush hour option
- Public transport, options for to or from sites; and weekday morning, afternoon or evening travel times
- Export catchment with deprivation and population details by LSOA.
- ONS population estimates: Population density; Age profile
- DfT journey times: GP practices and hospitals
- Census 2011: Ethnicity
- Deprivation: IMD and nine domains
- QOF recorded prevalence: 21 disease classifications
- Dementia: prevalence for ages 0-64 and 65+
- Hospital Episode Statistics: elective and none elective activity by HRG, ICD10 and OPCS
- GP practice registered patients: location catchment and age profile
- GP practice commissioning boundary
- GP practice workforce: by age and role
- NHS providers CQC registration: latest service definition and quality assessment
- Export map pages to PDF documents in Google Chrome and Safari
- Export site list as Excel spreadsheet
- Bookmark map configuration to return to previous views
- Extensive inline help panels
- Online help chat available between 9am and 5pm
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Multiple site types and clustering
Primary & Secondary care NHS sites by type and organisation, also related infrastructure
Travel time catchments
Isochrone catchment generation for single or multiple sites by walk, cycle, car and public transport
Indicator datasets
Deprivation; population age profile; ethnicity; recorded disease prevalence; journey times; Hospital Episode Statistics
Admin boundaries and site indexing
Overlay postcode, ward and other administrative boundaries; index sites and cross reference to list.
Specific Greater London layers
GLA ward-level population projection; LOAC; transport accessibility and air quality layers
Latest changes
RECENT ADDITIONS CQC assessment rating and details Urgent & Emergency cate sites Primary Care Networks support User added locations IMD top 10% highlight layer Key supermarket sites layer |
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Recent updates
Prescription activity
Prescription activity shows the relationship between GP prescribing and pharmacy dispensing.
Dispensing contractors’ data: Monthly publication
NHS Business Service Authority: nhsbsa.nhs.uk/…/dispensing-contractors-data
GP practice workforce

GP practice workforce updated: now displays GP, nurse, direct patient care and admin staff.
General Practice Workforce: Quarterly publication
NHS Digital: digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/general-and-personal-medical-services
GP registered patients
GP registered patient update: now using July 2020 data.
The location of registered patients by Lower Super Output Area and the age profile by sex and quinary age bands are available from an individual GP practice’s focus panel.
NHS Digital: Quarterly publication
digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/general-and-personal-medical-services
Ordnance Survey Open Greenspace
OS Open Greenspace updated: now using October 2019 data.
The Government initiative to make it easier for people to locate and access greenspaces has released a new version of its digital map data identifying accessible recreational and leisure greenspace in Great Britain. The data is available as a layer overlay within the SHAPE Place Atlas.
OS: www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/news/2017/os-releases-open-dataset-free-map-gb-greenspaces.html
Multiple site selection
Site’s LSOA indicator value
Workplace zones
New Census 2011 Workplace zones layer added.
Office for National Statistics 2011 workplace-based area classification: cowz.geodata.soton.ac.uk/cowz-uk
GP practice contractual boundaries
GP practice contractual boundaries updated: now using January – March 2020 data with option to display multiple boundaries simultaneously.
General practice data collections: GP submitted inner catchment area:
NHS Digital: digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-collections/general-practice-data-collections