NHS Digital has continued to work alongside stakeholders and data providers to improve data quality for the 2018/19 collection. This included an extensive data assurance exercise, and further data definition refinement. At national level, information is considered to be broadly comparable across the same type of data providers although statistics should still be treated with caution, especially where labelled as experimental.
Please ensure you use these statistics with reference to the Data Quality Statement. This will be updated should any errors be reported after publication. The current version is number 6, published on the 20th April 2020.
New versions of the data report and csv files were issued subsequent to publication, to include new Commissioning Regions in use. The latest versions are version 4, issued on 22 November 2019 to take account of two Trust Type changes (from Acute-Large to Acute-Teaching; RJE and RP5).
Please note that income is no longer netted off so costs should not be compared with figures from previous reporting periods.
For the period 1st April 2018 to 31st March 2019, NHS organisations reported:
◦ The total costs of running the NHS estate were £9.5 billion.
◦ The total energy usage from all energy sources across the NHS estate amounted to 11.2 billion kWh.
◦ The total cost to eradicate backlog was £6.5 billion. This is also known as 'backlog maintenance' and is measure of how much would need to be invested to restore a building to a certain state based on a state of assessed risk criteria. It does not include planned maintenance work (rather, it is work that should already have taken place).
◦ The total cost for cleaning services was £1.1 billion.
◦ The total cost of providing inpatient food was £0.6 billion.