Licence fee information

License information

CCSD licence fee information for organisations

Primary licence holders (e.g. private hospitals, NHS trusts and insurance organisations)

Each primary licence holder will annually be assigned to one of three licence categories. The licence fee is made up of a fixed and variable element. The fixed element will remain for three years whilst the variable element will be adjusted on an annual basis.
The licence fees (exclusive of VAT) for the 12 months from January 2024 are described below.

How do I know which category my organisation is in?

Providers

Providers are categorised based on their private activity, with the count of procedure episodes per provider used. This metric is from the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) April 2022-March 2023 data. This metric covers inpatient, including daycase, activity only. Providers who offer only outpatient clinic activity require a licence but will not be charged a fee. Any new entrant to the market starts in category A and will be re-evaluated after twelve months of activity submissions to PHIN. The provider may then shift into another category or remain in category A depending on the amount of activity associated with the CCSD codes.

Insurers

As there is no publicly available membership data for insurers, they will submit membership data to CCSD at the start of 2024. If membership data is not submitted, then the top licence fee will apply.

Others

Primary licence holders who do not fall into one of the categories above are charged £7,620 (+VAT) per annum