NHS Board Radar
Every English health system scored against the nine priorities of the 10 Year Health Plan, read from its own 2026 board papers. Two scores per priority: how much importance the board places on it, and how far it has delivered. Colour the map by importance, delivery or the gap, switch to a regional view or the 36 ICBs in place since April 2026, and open any system for the quoted, page-referenced evidence behind its scores.
England only · Data as at October 2026 · Refreshed quarterly, next review January 2027
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What NHS boards say, and what they have done
The national read behind the map. Nine priorities, where the gap between importance and delivery is widest, and what it means if you sell software or sit on a board. Free PDF, no form.
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What is the NHS Board Radar?
An interactive map that scores every English health system against the nine national priorities in the NHS 10 Year Health Plan, read directly from each system's own 2026 board papers. Two scores per priority: how much importance the board treats it, and how far it has actually delivered. The gap between the two is the story.
Who is the radar for?
Chairs and non-executive directors on NHS trust and integrated care boards who want an outside read on their own footprint; software and AI founders selling into the NHS who need to know which systems are actually delivering; and investors, PE operating partners and boards backing health-tech companies who want to see where the commercial ground is moving.
What are the nine priorities?
The three shifts named in the 10 Year Health Plan (care closer to home, analogue to digital, sickness to prevention), the two capital-directed themes (the single patient record and Federated Data Platform, AI and ambient voice technology), and the four standing enablers that decide whether any of it happens (finance, productivity, workforce, cyber security).
How does the two-axis scoring work?
Every priority gets two independent scores out of ten. Importance is how strongly the board is prioritising the theme, from no mention through named-in-strategy to a top board priority with capital. Delivery is how far the work has got, from nothing through a small pilot to scaled rollout with measured, sustained benefit. The gap is importance minus delivery: a high number means the board is pushing it hard and has not delivered.
Where does the evidence come from?
Every score is read from the latest public board pack published by the organisation itself; community interest companies that publish no board papers are read from their Quality Accounts and annual accounts. Each score shows the extract it rests on and the page it came from (two lack a page number), and the extract opens the source. Scores rescored in October 2026 rest on a verbatim quote of 6 to 15 words, checked by machine against the text of the page it cites, and the round was independently audited. Under More evidence each organisation also shows the separate importance quote where the scorer recorded one, the finance reporting basis, and the further references behind any 9 or 10. 34 scores where the latest pack was silent are carried forward from an earlier pack and are marked as such. Four organisations with no newer public pack keep their earlier scores and are marked as held. The scheme is footprint-complete (all 42 legacy systems and all 36 integrated care boards represented) and provider-partial (not every trust in every footprint is scored).
Why 42 systems when there are now 36 ICBs?
The 42 systems are the stable 2022 to 2026 footprints the board papers were written against, and they stay the unit we score, so movement between rounds is like for like. The legal integrated care board map reduced to 36 on 1 April 2026. The ICB (2026) view regroups the same evidence under those 36 boards, using the official ONS boundaries. Where an old footprint was split, organisations are placed by where they operate: Princess Alexandra Hospital, EPUT and ESNEFT sit under Essex ICB, and ESNEFT also appears under Norfolk and Suffolk for Ipswich. A further round of mergers is planned for April 2027.
What does the finance gap mean?
Finance is the widest gap in the dataset by a distance. Boards rate it as the highest-priority theme of any at 7.8 out of 10, and score lowest on execution at 4.2, a gap of 3.6. Every other gap sits between 0.5 and 1.9. Execution is capped at 3 where a formal turnaround or recovery programme is in force, or breakeven relies on £25m or more of deficit support. The one sentence: boards are under the most pressure exactly where they have delivered the least, and they know it. Read the other eight themes through this one; a trust in severe deficit will score wide on every innovation theme regardless of intent, because the money is gone.
How often is the radar refreshed?
Quarterly. The current build is October 2026, taken from the latest public board papers at 1 October 2026, with four organisations held on earlier packs. The next review is January 2027. The 42 system footprints are held constant, and movement is measured on the same organisation and theme in both rounds, so it is real, not an artefact of a changed panel.