Outpatient Appointment Reference Costs for UK Hospital Trusts, 2019-2020

UK hospital and community service unit cost indicators derived from electronic activity systems and financial returns for the 2019-2020 period. The dataset is published by the Government Digital Service under an Open Government Licence. It provides cost information at the trust and hospital level.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking outpatient service costs across different hospital trusts based on the unit cost indicators.
• Modeling healthcare expenditure for financial planning based on the reference cost data.
• Analyzing cost variations for specific hospital and community services mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data is derived from official electronic hospital activity systems and financial returns.
• Provides unit cost indicators for a range of hospital and community services.
• Costs are broken down at both trust and individual hospital levels.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Derived from electronic hospital activity systems and Health Service (HSC) trust financial and information returns.

Time Range

2019-2020

Freshness

Data covers the 2019-2020 period; last platform update is unknown.

Geography

United Kingdom (implied by HSC trusts and Government Digital Service)