Publication, Part of Estates Returns Information Collection

Estates Returns Information Collection, Summary page and dataset for ERIC 2023/24

Official statistics, Other reports and statistics

Publication Date:: 19 Dec 2024
Geographic Coverage:: England
Geographical Granularity:: Primary Care Organisations, Care Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Community health services, Hospital Trusts, NHS Trusts, Regions, Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs), GP practices, Hospital and Community Health Services, Independent Sector Health Care Providers, Primary Care Trusts, Mental Health Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Regions, Ambulance Trusts, Country

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Data Quality: Introduction and Key Quality Measures

Summary

These are the summary results from the 2023/24 Estates Return Information Collection (ERIC), a mandatory collection for all NHS trusts including Ambulance trusts. It comprises information relating to the costs of providing and maintaining the NHS Estate including buildings, maintaining and equipping hospitals, the provision of services e.g. laundry and food, and the costs and consumption of utilities.

Since the 2018/19 collection NHS England's Workforce and Estates Team and Estates Division have jointly undertaken additional measures to improve data quality. These include extra validations on point of entry and alignment of communications and clarifications to data providers, and extensive data quality assurance with data provider engagement. Chief Executive signoff of returns is also required a part of the "commit data" process. NHS England engages closely with trusts to clarify requirements and support accurate reporting via webinars and our timely user support service.

Data users should note that several data fields are currently labelled as unreliable due to having changed definition since the previous reporting period, or due to being introduced relatively recently. Please see the introduction and data quality worksheets for more information.

Key Facts

NHS England has continued to work alongside stakeholders and data providers to improve data quality for the 2023/24 collection. This included further data definition refinement, and extensive data assurance exercises mid- and post-collection, and a provisional release of data earlier in the year (October) which allowed organisations a further period of review following publication. We aim to publish the full and final ERIC 2023/24 results later this year.

Information presented can be considered to be broadly comparable across the same type of data providers at national level although statistics should still be treated with caution, especially where labelled as experimental. Users should bear in mind that figures may change in the final release of this data.

Please ensure you use these statistics with reference to the Data Quality information provided.

For the period 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2024, NHS trusts reported:

The total costs of running the NHS estate were £13.6 billion.

The total energy usage from all energy sources across the NHS estate was 11.1 billion kWh.

The total cost to eradicate backlog was £13.8 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 £1.5 billion.

The total cost of providing inpatient food was £0.8 billion.