Health Trust Specialist Services Reference Costs 2013-14 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 Health and Social Care trust financial returns for the 2013-2014 period. It was published by OpenDataNI.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking hospital service costs based on unit cost indicators.
- Analyzing financial efficiency of Health and Social Care trusts based on reported financial returns.
- Modeling resource allocation for specialist services based on reference cost data.
Strengths
- Data is derived from official electronic hospital activity systems and financial returns.
- Provides unit cost indicators at both trust and individual hospital levels.
- Covers a specific fiscal year (2013-2014).
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 13:32:48.366582; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
- Source
- OpenDataNI
- Collection Method
- Derived from electronic hospital activity systems and Health and Social Care trust financial and information returns.
- Time Range
- 2013-2014
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:48.366582.
- Geography
- United Kingdom (likely Northern Ireland, given publisher)