Who are the instruction for?
This instruction is intended for all wellbeing services counties and joint county authorities for wellbeing services in Mainland Finland as well as the City of Helsinki, all of which are responsible for organising specialised healthcare services within their respective areas.
The obligation to provide data for the hospital productivity statistics is based on the Act on Wellbeing Services Counties (611/2021, Section 120), under which a wellbeing services county shall produce information on the wellbeing services county’s operations and finances for the steering, management and monitoring of the wellbeing services county’s operations and finances.
Purpose of the data collection
The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) collects data for the hospitals’ productivity databases on the performance measures of specialised health care (such as inpatient care periods, outpatient periods and visits, and the number of other contact methods) and on costs by medical specialty. These data are essential for assessing and improving the productivity of specialised healthcare services and for identifying the factors underlying productivity differences.
Submission of data
Submit the service provision data on specialised health care to the Care Register for Health Care (Hilmo) in accordance with the instructions for submission of data to the Care Register for Health Care Hilmo (See the right‑hand column’s section Read also). THL extracts the performance data of specialised health care treatment activities from the Care Register for Health Care (TerveysHilmo).
Report the cost data for specialised health care service provision by medical specialty to the State Treasury’s Financial Data Service for Municipalities and Wellbeing Services Counties as part of the AURA financial reporting HHYTT reporting package, in accordance with the State Treasury’s instructions and schedule (see the right‑hand column’s section Further information elsewhere). THL retrieves the hospital productivity cost data from the the State Treasury’s financial database via the interface and/or the service Exploreadministration.fi.
Exploreadministration.fi
Follow the calculation instructions set out in this data collection guidance and in this data collection form (Excel) when calculating the cost data for specialised health care service provision.
- Data collection guidance for cost data for the year 2025 (in Finnish)
- Data collection form for Cost Data for the year 2025 (xlsx 174 KB, in Finnish)
Steps and Schedule for the Submission of Data
According to the Act on Wellbeing Services Counties (611/2021, Section 120) the wellbeing services county is responsible for the accuracy of the information it reports.
Validate the accuracy of the statistical dataset following the steps and schedule below:
