UK Health Trust Service Costs and Indicators for 2016-17

OpenDataNI provides reference costs and indicators for hospital and community services in the UK for the 2016-17 financial year. The data is derived from electronic hospital activity systems and Health and Social Care trust financial returns. It offers unit cost metrics at the trust and hospital level.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking hospital service costs based on reported unit cost indicators.
• Analyzing financial efficiency of community health services based on trust-level returns.
• Modeling resource allocation for specific healthcare activities based on reference cost data.

Strengths

• Data covers the 2016-17 financial year, providing a specific temporal snapshot.
• Sourced from official electronic hospital activity systems and HSC trust financial returns.
• Provides indicators at both trust and individual hospital levels.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:01.201400; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2016-2017

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:01.201400; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom (likely Northern Ireland, given the source)