Archived Reference Costs
Reference costs are the average unit cost to the NHS of providing secondary healthcare to NHS patients.
This page contains archived Reference Costs for the financial years 2017/18 and 2016/17, along with a link to earlier cost collections on the Department of Health website. For information on the current (2018/19) collection please go to the page National Cost Collection for the NHS.
2017/18 Reference Costs
2016/17 Reference Costs
Previous years' reference costs
Reference costs published by the Department of Health & Social Care
The Department of Health & Social Care has collected reference costs from NHS providers for every financial year between 1997/98 and 2015/16.