NHS Reference Costs
- Abstract
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Reference Costs are the average cost to the NHS of providing a defined service in a given financial year. The document gives details on how and on what NHS expenditure was used for each financial year. Reference costs index publication is the richest source of financial data on the NHS ever produced. As in previous years, its main purpose is to provide a basis for comparison within (and outside) the NHS between organisations, and down to the level of individual treatments. Reference costs publication shows details of unit cost, average length of stay and activity levels for a wide range of services, No. of episodes, attendances, beddays related to average and range of unit costs.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Expenditure, costs
- Variables
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NHS expenditure, unit cost, average length of stay and activity levels for a wide range of services, episodes, attendances, bed days.
- Keywords
- Elective inpatient, non elective inpatient, consultant, face to face contact, non face to face contact, accident and emergency, audiology, audiological services, drugs, palliative care, community nursing service, community, mental health, travel cost, expenditure, treatment
- Identifier Variables
- HRG
- Economic/Subject Categories
- Expenditure
- Area of Health System
- Primary care, Secondary care
- Data Available
- Risk behaviours, Socio-economic, Demographic
- Data collecting organization (s)
- Department of Health
- Data Type
- Administrative
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Unit of Analysis
- Aggregate
- Sample
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All NHS expenditure
- Availability
- Department of Health
- Conditions of Access
- Free access
- Link
- http://www.dh.gov.uk/[…]/
- Contact
- Tel: 02072104850
- Publications
- Raftery J, et al. Ranibizumab (Lucentis) versus bevacizumab (Avastin): modelling cost effectiveness. Br J Ophthalmol 2007; 91: 1244-1246