Research and analysis

NHS reference costs 2015 to 2016

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

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 15 December 2016

Documents

Reference costs 2015 to 2016

PDF, 1.46 MB, 59 pages

National schedule of reference costs: the main schedule

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 3.52 MB

National schedule of reference costs: spells costs

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 1.37 MB

National schedule of reference costs: contracted-out services

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 1.09 MB

Reference costs index

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 153 KB

Reference costs index by department and service code

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 8.72 MB

Reference costs reconciliation: 2015 to 2016

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 358 KB

Organisation level source data part 1: data

30 MB

Organisation level source data part 2: data MFF adjusted

30.1 MB

Organisation level source data part 3: spells

24.2 MB

Organisation level source data part 4: all other organisation level data

185 KB

Reference costs survey

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 862 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 to 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.

Published 15 December 2016