Health Trust Reference Costs for Hospital and Community Services, 2014-15

Health Trust Reference Costs 2014-15 provides indicators of the unit costs of providing a range of hospital and community services at trust and hospital level. The data is derived from electronic hospital activity systems and HSC trust financial and information returns for the 2014-15 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.
• Analyzing financial efficiency of community health services based on trust-level cost data.
• Modeling healthcare expenditure based on activity and financial return data.

Strengths

• Provides unit cost indicators for a range of hospital and community services.
• Data is derived from official electronic activity systems and financial returns.
• Covers costs at both trust and individual hospital levels.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the 2014-15 period.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2014-15

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:16.922355; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely Northern Ireland, given the source organization.