ONS is developing Health Accounts for the UK on an experimental basis according to an internationally agreed framework of concepts, definitions, classifications and accounting rules, drawn up by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Health Accounts provide a comprehensive, coherent and consistent statistical description of healthcare expenditure.
As such, Health Accounts permit meaningful comparisons over time as well as across countries.
Most countries in the European Union, as well as the OECD group of countries and more globally, are taking steps to develop Health Accounts, and publicly available estimates for other countries can be found on the OECD website.
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Background for health accounts project
Background for the ONS UK health accounts project 2003
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International comparison of total health expenditure
Comparisons of total UK health expenditure with other EU member states for the latest year available according to A System of Health Accounts
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Quality assurance of work on UK Health Accounts
The UK Health Accounts project is overseen by a Project Board, which advises on data sources and methods as well as comments on the strategic direction of the work
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System of Health Accounts guidelines online
System of Health Accounts (SHA) guidelines online is part of an ONS project, entitled "Support Package for Applying the Manual of Health Accounts in the EU"
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Health Accounts terminology
Terminology and glossary used in Total health expenditure in the Health Accounts
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Total UK health expenditure and experimental UK Health Accounts
Information on ONS development of Health Accounts for the UK on an experimental basis
