Summary
These are the results from the 2022/23 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 an enhanced assurance process once the initial collection phase had been completed. 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.
NHS England has continued to work alongside stakeholders and data providers to improve data quality for the 2022/23 collection. This includes an extensive annual 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 1, published on the 14th December 2023.
On 19th December 2023 it was identified that columns EJ-EL in the 'Site Level Data' tab in the Excel report were incorrectly labelled and should have been labelled as Domestic waste (recycling) volume, Domestic waste (incineration) cost, and Domestic waste (incineration) volume. These have been amended, and no other fields or data products were affected. We apologise for any inconvenience caused, and urge users to download the latest copy of the report tables (version 2).
For the period 1st April 2022 to 31st March 2023, NHS organisations reported:
Key Facts
The total costs of running the NHS estate were £12.4 billion
This is an increase of 12.0 per cent since 2021/22.
The total energy usage from all energy sources across the NHS estate was 11.2 billion kWh
This is a decrease of 1.65% per cent since 2021/22.
The total cost to eradicate backlog was £11.6 billion
This is an increase of 13.6 per cent since 2021/22
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 £1.3 billion.
This is an increase of 10.3 per cent since 2021/22.
The total cost of providing inpatient food was £0.8 billion
This is an increase of 13.7 per cent since 2021/22.
Please note that any costs, capital and/or revenue related to Covid-19 incurred during the reporting year are not included in ERIC figures where they were allocated to a specific trust-wide Covid-19 budget. However, any additional costs allocated to pay and non-pay budgets in specific areas such as cleaning, waste and energy relating to Covid-19 were included where they could not be identified and removed.
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