Today Ortent launches the NHS Board Radar.
It is a free interactive map of every English NHS health system. All forty-two. Each one is scored on the nine national priorities in the 10 Year Health Plan: care closer to home, digital and electronic patient records, prevention, the single patient record, AI and ambient voice, finance, productivity, workforce, and cyber security.
Each priority gets two scores. How important the board says it is. And how well they say they are delivering it. Both scores come from the system’s own 2026 board papers, and every score carries a page reference to the exact document it came from. Nine hundred and forty-nine scored cells, built from a quarter spent reading board packs.
Nothing in the Radar is my opinion. It is what the boards themselves put on the record, organised so you can actually read it.
Here is the one finding I will give you before you go and look.
On eight of the nine priorities, the gap between what boards say matters and what they say they have delivered sits between 1.0 and 1.9 out of ten. That is normal territory. Ambition should run a little ahead of delivery.
On the ninth, the gap is 2.9. Nearly three points. The ninth is finance.
Boards rate finance as the most important thing on their agenda, 7.6 out of ten on average. They score their own delivery of it lowest, 4.7. Every board in the country said some version of the same thing: this matters most, and we are furthest behind on it.
That gap explains a lot of the other eight. A system in deficit will be behind on AI, behind on the single patient record, behind on community care, whatever its intentions. The money decides. If you want to know how a trust is really doing on innovation, read the finance pages first.
That is my one finding. The Radar holds hundreds more, and yours will be different from mine.
If you chair a trust or an integrated care board, look up your own system. See how your gaps compare with the other forty-one. You may find your position is the sector average, which is a national conversation. You may find it is wider, which is a conversation for your next board meeting.
If you sell software or services into the NHS, look up your prospects. The Radar shows you which systems are saying what about the priorities your product touches, in their own words, with the page reference to prove it. That is a better call sheet than any list of every ICB in England.
If you invest in health tech, look at the spread. Buying capacity is not evenly distributed, and now there is a public map of where it sits.
The Radar refreshes every quarter. The next update is October 2026, and the same systems are tracked each cycle, so when a score moves, the movement is real.
It is at ortent.co/tools/nhs-board-radar. No form. No email. Go and find the thing that surprises you.