UK Health Trust Community Services Unit Cost Indicators for 2013-14

Reference Costs provide indicators of the unit costs of providing a range of hospital and community services at trust and hospital level. The data is based on information derived from electronic hospital activity systems and HSC trust financial and information returns for the 2013-2014 period. The dataset is published by OpenDataNI under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking hospital service costs based on unit cost indicators mentioned in the description
• Analyzing cost variations between different health trusts based on financial returns data
• Modeling healthcare expenditure for community services based on activity system data

Strengths

• Data is derived from official HSC trust financial and information returns for 2013-2014.
• Covers a range of hospital and community services at both trust and hospital level.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the 2013-14 period.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Collection Method

Based on information derived from electronic hospital activity systems and HSC trust financial and information returns.

Time Range

2013-2014

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:04.759587; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom (likely Northern Ireland, given the source)