Health Trust Reference Costs for Hospital and Community Services, 2018-19

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 for the 2018-19 period. It is published by the Government Digital Service under an Open Government Licence.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking hospital service costs based on unit cost indicators.
• Analyzing financial efficiency of community health services based on trust-level returns.
• Modeling healthcare expenditure based on activity and financial data from 2018-19.

Strengths

• Data is derived from official electronic hospital activity systems and financial returns.
• Provides cost indicators at both trust and individual hospital levels.
• Covers a range of hospital and community services for a specific fiscal year (2018-19).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2018-19

Freshness

Data covers the 2018-19 period; last update date is unknown.

Geography

Likely United Kingdom (based on 'HSC trust' and platform 'eu_open_data').