Policy paper

NHS reference costs 2013 to 2014

Information on how NHS providers spent money to provide healthcare to patients.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 27 November 2014
• Last updated: 9 March 2015 — See all updates

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Applies to England

Documents

Reference costs 2013-14

PDF, 1.22 MB, 58 pages

National schedule of reference costs: the main schedule

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 4.61 MB

National schedule of reference costs: spell costs

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 1.96 MB

Reference costs index

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 315 KB

Reference costs index by department and service code

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 15.6 MB

Organisation level source data part 1 - data

ZIP, 42.3 MB

Organisation level source data part 2 – data MFF adjusted

ZIP, 57.2 MB

Organisation level source data part 3 - spells

20.8 MB

Organisation level source data part 4 - organisation, department, service and currency description, survey, memorandum data and mapping pots

ZIP, 83.2 KB

Reference costs survey

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 748 KB

Details

This is the most up-to-date information about how NHS expenditure was used to provide healthcare by NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts.

Reference costs are the unit costs to the NHS for providing defined services in a given financial year to NHS patients in England. They are collected and published annually.

Please note that the organisation level source data (parts 1-3) are large files and should be opened using MS Access or other database software. Annex C of the main publication gives advice on using the data.

Revised data

9 March 2015: ‘Organisation level source data part 3 – spells’ (in the file’12 Spell data MFF Adjusted’ data had not been adjusted for market forces factor - replacement file contains these adjustments).

22 January 2015: ‘National schedule of reference costs: the main schedule’ to correct a small number of discrepancies mainly relating to cystic fibrosis.

Published 27 November 2014
Last updated 9 March 2015 + show all updates

1. 9 March 2015

   Data revised in ‘Organisation level source data part 3 – spells' (in the file’12 Spell data MFF Adjusted’ data had not been adjusted for market forces factor - replacement file contains these adjustments.).

2. 22 January 2015

   Data revised in 'National schedule of reference costs: the main schedule' to correct a small number of discrepancies mainly relating to Cystic Fibrosis

3. 27 November 2014

   First published.