UK Outpatient Appointment Costs at Trust and Hospital Level for 2018-2019

2018-2019 unit cost indicators for a range of hospital and community services, including outpatient first and follow-up appointments. The data is derived from electronic hospital activity systems and Health and Social Care trust financial returns, published by OpenDataNI under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking unit costs for outpatient services based on trust-level financial returns.
• Analyzing cost variations between different hospital and community services based on activity system data.
• Modeling healthcare expenditure for financial planning based on reported reference costs.

Strengths

• Provides unit cost indicators for the specific fiscal year 2018-2019.
• Data is aggregated at both trust and individual hospital levels.
• Derived from official electronic activity systems and financial returns.

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 temporal bias inherent to the 2018-2019 period.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI via uk_data platform.

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2018-2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:23.929845; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom (likely Northern Ireland, given the publisher).