Hospital Accessibility in England and Wales

This was a piece of analysis for the British Red Red Cross’ COVID-19 Vulnerability Index. The index brings togather a variety of small area open data that help to measure the vulnerability of the local population to COVID-19.

Open data on hospital locations in England and Wales were identified (see this notebook for a summary of these data sources) and geocoded using the ONS Postcode Directory. Then using the Ornance Survey Open Roads dataset and the speedy python network analysis library pandana the distances from LSOA centroid to the hospitials were calculated.

This python script contains all the details and the indicator data is here.

Thanks to Tom Russell and the British Red Cross Maps Team for their help.