Health Poverty Index: Net Healthcare Expenditure per Capita for England, 2001/02

2001/02 administrative data from the UK Department of Health on net healthcare expenditure per capita for medical, surgical, and psychiatric specialties. The data is aggregated from the Annual Financial Returns of NHS Trusts and covers Local Authority Districts and national levels across England. It was published by the Health Poverty Index as part of its 'Situation of Health' indicators.

Use Cases

• Analyze regional disparities in healthcare funding based on per capita expenditure for different medical specialties.
• Model the relationship between healthcare resourcing and health poverty indicators at the local authority level.
• Benchmark historical healthcare expenditure for medical, surgical, and psychiatric services against later time periods.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from official administrative records (Annual Financial Returns of NHS Trusts).
• Provides geographic granularity at the Local Authority District level for England.
• Covers a specific fiscal year (2001/02) for temporal analysis.

Limitations

• Row count and column definitions are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Data is from a single fiscal year (2001/02), limiting longitudinal analysis.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Department of Health and Social Care (Annual Financial Returns of Financial Trusts)

Collection Method

Administrative data aggregation

Time Range

2001/02

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:51.689540; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England (Local Authority District, National)