Open Source Healthcare Statistics
Collecting statistics on open source NHS and healthcare related code repositories
Open source is the practice of publishing the source code of a software project so that anyone can read, modify, re-use, and improve that software.
As set out in the NHS Digital Service Manual, public services are built with public money–so unless there’s a good reason not to (for security reasons for example), all code produced by the NHS should be made publicly available. To this end, the Department of Health & Social Care has recently made a commitment to make all new NHS code open source and published under appropriate licences such as MIT and OGLv3.
Open Health Repository Statistics
Latest Data: 21/01/2025 00:43:33
| Organisation | Open Repositories | Stargazers | Forks | Open Issues | Top License | Top Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NHS Digital | 389 | 904 | 485 | 2848 | MIT License | Python |
| OpenSAFELY Studies | 286 | 210 | 108 | 746 | MIT License | Python |
| NHS Connect | 200 | 359 | 413 | 828 | Apache License 2.0 | CSS |
| University of Oxford - Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab | 154 | 128 | 60 | 411 | MIT License | Python |
| NHS England | 131 | 335 | 169 | 353 | MIT License | Python |
| NHS Business Services Authority | 128 | 36 | 53 | 2 | Apache License 2.0 | Java |
| NHSX | 103 | 644 | 330 | 339 | MIT License | Python |
| UK Health Security Agency | 92 | 2621 | 639 | 277 | MIT License | R |
| The Health Foundation Analytics Lab | 86 | 231 | 54 | 21 | MIT License | R |
| NICE Digital | 78 | 70 | 58 | 166 | MIT License | JavaScript |
| BHF Data Science Centre | 71 | 74 | 24 | 21 | Apache License 2.0 | Python |
| NHS-R Community | 70 | 741 | 326 | 276 | Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal | R |
| OpenSAFELY Core | 61 | 134 | 64 | 953 | Other | Python |
| NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU - The Strategy Unit | 60 | 115 | 35 | 156 | MIT License | R |
| NHS BNSSG Analytics | 40 | 109 | 28 | 30 | GNU General Public License v3.0 | R |
| Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - CDU Data Science Team | 33 | 40 | 15 | 74 | Other | R |
| North Central London ICB | 29 | 15 | 3 | 5 | Other | Python |
| NHS.UK | 25 | 915 | 221 | 998 | MIT License | HTML |
| Birmingham and Solihull ICS | 24 | 27 | 17 | 26 | Other | R |
| NHS Leadership Academy | 23 | 90 | 35 | 228 | Other | PHP |
| NHS Python Community for Healthcare | 17 | 174 | 38 | 45 | MIT License | Python |
| NHS 111 Online - NHS Digital | 12 | 4 | 12 | 48 | Apache License 2.0 | C# |
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About this page
This tool is built using end-to-end open source analytical tools including: The NHS Digital Service Manual, python, plotly, github.io, and github actions.
To get your organisation added to the collection, email: data@nhsx.nhs.uk