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, and open any system for the page-referenced evidence behind every score.
England only · Data as at July 2026 · Refreshed quarterly, next review October 2026
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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 an actual 2026 board pack published by the organisation itself, with a faithful extract and a PDF page reference. 918 of 1,116 scored cells carry a page reference; the remainder are no-evidence rows or shared board-in-common packs. The scheme is footprint-complete (all 42 legacy systems represented) and provider-partial (not every trust in every footprint is verified).
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. The legal integrated care board map reduced to 36 on 1 April 2026 after phase-one mergers, and a further reduction is planned. Where a footprint has since merged or split, the row still carries the legacy-footprint data with a note; the radar will re-cut against the current legal map when enough board papers have been published under it.
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 7.6 out of 10, and score lowest on execution at 4.6, a gap of 3.0. Every other gap sits between 1.1 and 2.0. 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 July 2026, taken from board papers published January to July 2026. The next review is October 2026. Systems are held constant cycle to cycle so movement is real, not an artefact of a changed panel.