UK Health Trust Specialist Services Reference Costs for 2019-20

2019-20 reference costs provide indicators of the unit costs for a range of 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 and information returns. It is published by OpenDataNI under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking hospital service costs based on unit cost indicators.
• Analyzing financial performance of Health and Social Care trusts based on reported returns.
• Modeling resource allocation for specialist services based on activity system data.

Strengths

• Data is derived from official electronic hospital activity systems and financial returns.
• Covers a range of hospital and community services at both trust and hospital level.
• Published under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license.

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 and institutional bias inherent to the UK's National Health Service structure.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Collection Method

Derived from electronic hospital activity systems and Health and Social Care trust financial and information returns.

Time Range

2019-20

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:55.197040; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom (likely England, Northern Ireland, or specific UK health trusts)