Health Trust Reference Costs 2017-18 provides indicators of unit costs for 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 2017-18 period. It is published by OpenDataNI under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.
Use Cases
- Benchmark hospital service costs based on unit cost indicators.
- Analyze financial efficiency of health trusts based on cost data.
- Model resource allocation for community services based on reference costs.
Strengths
- Data is derived from official electronic hospital activity systems and financial returns.
- Provides unit cost indicators at both trust and hospital level for granular analysis.
- Covers a specific fiscal year (2017-18) 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/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
- 2017-18
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:27.977101; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Likely United Kingdom (based on platform 'uk_data').