About our data tool

Data used in the tool has been taken from Welsh Government budgets, NHS bodies’ independently audited financial statements and from monthly financial data submissions from the NHS bodies to the Welsh Government.

Our data tool shows the finances of seven health boards, three NHS trusts and two strategic health authorities in Wales.

With our interactive tool you can look at trends in NHS finances up to 31 March 2023 for the whole of Wales and at individual health boards.

This data is being published following national and local work we carried out during 2020-21.

We hope the tool will help to tell some of the story of local government finances and be useful to anyone who wants to understand a bit more about the position of individual bodies and the local government sector as a whole.

This is the first time we’ve collated this data from accounts, and we’ll continue to update the tool after completing our audit of accounts work each year. 

Our interactive tool accompanies our report: Time for Change – Poverty in Wales, by allowing you to explore some of the data in the report in more detail.

The tool brings together a range of data to help councils and their partners improve how they deliver services to people in poverty.

The data has been split into the seven dimensions of poverty: