Medical care

This theme includes sites that focus on the provision of secondary medical care services.

OS MasterMap Sites Layer (green polygon) Medical care theme – hospital

Functional site	Description
Hospice	A hospital for patients with terminal illnesses.
Hospital	A medical facility that provides secondary level care.
Medical care accommodation	A feature that provides both long term medical accommodation and medical care.

All medical care sites will be captured as indicated below unless they fall out of scope; for example, a private property labelled as ‘The Blue Hospital’.

The following features are included in the captured extent:

• Main buildings.

• Site-specific service buildings and structures.

• Access roads and paths.

• Site-specific car parks.

• Areas of man-made and natural surface surrounded by included areas.

The following features are not included in the captured extent:

• Buildings not specifically related to the operation of the site (for example, children’s nursery).

• Public through-roads and their pavements; and public pedestrian through-routes.