Health Trust Reference Costs for Hospital and Community Services, 2016-17

2016-17 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 derived from electronic hospital activity systems and HSC trust financial and information returns. It is published by OpenDataNI under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking hospital service costs based on reported unit cost indicators.
• Analyzing financial efficiency of health trusts based on activity and cost returns.
• Modeling resource allocation for community services based on cost data.

Strengths

• Data is derived from official HSC trust financial and information returns for 2016-17.
• Provides cost 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.
• Data may reflect geographic/temporal bias inherent to uk_data.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2016-17

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:57.877071; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.