Summary
This report presents analysis of costing data for ambulance activity in 2019-20 submitted to the Patient Level Information and Costing System (PLICS) data collection by NHS providers of ambulance services in England.
The PLICS Ambulance data collection is part of NHS England and NHS Improvement’s Costing Transformation Programme (CTP). The CTP aims to improve the quality of costing information in the NHS, and support providers to improve the efficiency of their services.
This is the first publication in this series. These statistics are classified as experimental and should be used with caution. Further information about limitations is provided in this report.
The data from the 2019-20 PLICS Ambulance collection is used by NHS England and NHS Improvement in the National Cost Collection (NCC) publication. Information on how analysis in this report may differ from the NCC published analysis is included in the section ‘Relationship to NHS England and NHS Improvement’s National Cost Collection outputs’.
10 ambulance service providers reported a total cost of £2.3 billion relating to 10.7 million ambulance incidents.
The Covid-19 pandemic began to affect levels of NHS activity during the last few weeks of the financial year 2019-20. This may affect both activity counts and costs included in this report, although the impact is likely to be limited as the majority of the reporting period was not affected by the pandemic.
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