Health Poverty Index: Health Service Expenditure Per Capita for England, 2001

2001 data on health service expenditure per capita for services promoting healthy areas across England. The dataset is derived from administrative Annual Financial Returns of NHS Financial Trusts, published by the Health Poverty Index. It provides figures at both Local Authority District and National geographies.

Use Cases

• Analyze regional disparities in health service funding based on per capita expenditure data.
• Model the relationship between health expenditure and health poverty indicators at the local authority level.
• Benchmark historical health spending for services promoting healthy areas against contemporary budgets.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from official Department of Health administrative returns.
• Provides geographic granularity at the Local Authority District level for England.
• Has a specific temporal focus on the year 2001.

Limitations

• Row count and column definitions are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Data is from a single year (2001), which may limit 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

Time Range

2001

Freshness

Last updated 2026 07 08 13:31:57.992509; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England (Local Authority District and National)