UK Outpatient Appointment Costs for 2013-14 from Hospital Activity Systems

Reference Costs data 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 HSC trust financial and information returns. It was published by OpenDataNI under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and last updated on 2026-07-08.

Use Cases

• Analyze cost variation for outpatient services based on unit cost indicators mentioned in the description
• Benchmark hospital and trust-level spending based on financial returns data
• Model healthcare service delivery efficiency based on activity system data

Strengths

• Data is derived from official electronic hospital activity systems and financial returns
• Covers a specific fiscal year (2013-14) for temporal consistency
• Published under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license for reuse

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2013-14

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:14.162267; freshness should be verified

Geography

Likely United Kingdom, specifically Northern Ireland given the organization.