Streamlined healthcare data standardisation for NHS insights

Rapidly processed and standardised historical and ongoing spend data for 210+ NHS trusts.

The project by numbers.

200+
Data sources
99%
Accuracy achieved
170
Monthly reports
42
Extra datasets

Meet the

business.

A leading UK publication providing critical insights, news, and analysis on healthcare policy, leadership, and management. Their reporting supports NHS decision-makers with accurate, actionable, data-driven intelligence.

Their

challenge.

The client needed accurate standardisation of fragmented NHS spend data sourced from various inconsistent formats—including Excel, PDF, and non-machine-readable structures. Ensuring completeness required proactive retrieval via FOI requests, all structured for seamless integration into their reporting systems.

What we

delivered.

Merit implemented a structured data workflow to systematically collect, clean, standardise, and deliver spend data. Historical and ongoing data was consistently formatted, enriched, quality-checked, and securely delivered via SFTP, ensuring seamless integration and reliable reporting.

Rapid Data Standardisation

Completed three years of historical NHS spend data for 210 trusts in just three months.

Consistent Monthly Processing

Ongoing standardisation for 212 trusts, covering diverse and complex formats.

Robust Quality Assurance

Systematic quality checks to guarantee accuracy, completeness, and reliability.

Flexible Data Integration

Delivered data structured precisely for effortless client system integration via SFTP.

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