Accounts Payable Data Collection

Frequency: monthly

The Accounts Payable Data Collection is part of the Spend Comparison Service.

The data collections are partly automated in partnership with NHS NEP and NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) and complemented with manual submissions through the Strategic Data Collection Service (SDCS).

Please note that the NHS Spend Comparison Service data collections rely on submissions of full datasets across spend categories for the respective time periods, not merely a subset of data for specific categories.

If you are not a customer of the above for invoice processing and using their systems, please manually submit your accounts payable data.

The window for data submission for the Accounts Payable collections falls within the first two weeks of each calendar month. Trusts must submit the previous months data during the two-week window.

Submitted data is processed towards the end of each calendar month and will be made available for analysis via the dashboards no later than the first of the following month.

Find guidance on submitting data through the Strategic Data Collections Service.

More detailed information about the SCS data submissions can be found via the Central Commercial Function Hub.

Request access for the CCF Hub.