UK Health Trust Unit Cost Indicators for Hospital and Community Services, 2015-16

Reference Costs data provides unit cost indicators for a range of hospital and community services at the trust and hospital level in the UK. The dataset is derived from electronic hospital activity systems and Health and Social Care trust financial returns for the 2015-2016 period. It was published by OpenDataNI under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking hospital service costs based on trust-level financial indicators.
• Analyzing unit cost variations for community services based on activity and financial returns.
• Modeling healthcare expenditure based on reference cost indicators for the 2015-16 fiscal year.

Strengths

• Data is derived from official electronic hospital activity systems and HSC trust financial returns.
• Provides unit cost indicators at both trust and individual hospital levels.
• Covers a specific fiscal year (2015-2016) for temporal consistency.

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 geographic and institutional bias inherent to the UK's National Health Service structure.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Collection Method

Derived from electronic hospital activity systems and Health and Social Care trust financial and information returns.

Time Range

2015-2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:02.634216; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom (likely England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales)