Health Trust Community Services Indicators and Reference Costs for 2014-15

Reference Costs provide indicators of the unit costs for hospital and community services at the trust and hospital level. The data is derived from electronic hospital activity systems and HSC trust financial and information returns for the 2014-2015 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 financial efficiency of community health services based on trust-level reference costs
• Modeling healthcare expenditure patterns based on activity and financial return data

Strengths

• Data covers the specific 2014-2015 fiscal year
• Cost indicators are derived from official hospital activity systems and financial returns

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 2014-2015 period

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Collection Method

Derived from electronic hospital activity systems and HSC trust financial and information returns

Time Range

2014-2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:23.719090; freshness should be verified

Geography

Likely United Kingdom, specifically Northern Ireland given the publisher