UK Quarterly Project/2025/2025 Q2 Project: Healthcare
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Welcome
For the second UK quarterly project of 2025, the focus is on Healthcare.
We have run similar quarterly projects before. See:
- 2020 Q2 Project: GP Surgeries and Healthsites
Healthcare Facilities to Focus On
GP Surgeries and Private Doctors
Basic tagging: amenity=doctors + healthcare=doctor + name=*
Dental Surgeries (NHS and Private)
Basic tagging: amenity=dentist + healthcare=dentist + name=*
Hospitals & Clinics
Basic tagging:
- Hospitals: amenity=hospital + healthcare=hospital + name=*
- Clinics: amenity=clinic + healthcare=clinic + name=* + healthcare:speciality=*
Care Homes & Hospices
Basic tagging:
- Hospices: amenity=hospice + healthcare=hospice + name=*
- Residential facility with nursing care: amenity=social_facility + social_facility=nursing_home + name=* + social_facility:for=*
- Residential facility with non-nursing support: amenity=social_facility + social_facility=group_home + name=* + social_facility:for=*
- Private flats with light-touch support: amenity=social_facility + social_facility=assisted_living + name=* + social_facility:for=*
Pharmacies
Basic tagging: amenity=pharmacy + healthcare=pharmacy + name=*
Data Sources
Streetlevel Imagery to confirm and update access routes to hospital grounds
Mapping UK Healthcare Locations in OSM by Robert Whittaker is an in development tool to compare mapped OSM data with data from a number of external data sources.