Trust Reference Costs
Reference Costs provide indicators of the unit costs of providing a range of hospital and community services at trust and hospital level, based on information derived from electronic hospital activity systems and HSC trust financial and information returns.
What information is used for?
The information is used to contribute to performance monitoring of the HSC system, policy formulation and evaluation, and responding to Assembly Questions and other information requests. The quoted costs are fully absorbed costs, this means that they include overheads and capital charges.
2023/24 provides the second set of cost data submitted by Health & Social Care Trusts through the regional Patient Level Information Costing System. As such the costs may not be fully mature.
If you have any queries on the cost data or would like more information, please contact costing@hscni.net