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Open Source Healthcare Statistics

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: 07/08/2025 00:59:41

Organisation Open Repositories Stargazers Forks Open Issues Top License Top Language
NHS Digital 456 1127 531 2780 MIT License Python
OpenSAFELY Studies 297 231 113 775 MIT License Python
NHS Connect 200 382 414 1016 Apache License 2.0 CSS
NHS England 164 413 211 387 MIT License Python
University of Oxford - Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab 152 131 58 394 MIT License Python
NHS Business Services Authority 141 37 41 31 Apache License 2.0 Java
UK Health Security Agency 107 2631 640 326 MIT License Python
NHSX 103 664 351 341 MIT License Python
NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU - The Strategy Unit 94 168 42 435 MIT License R
The Health Foundation Analytics Lab 92 244 57 21 MIT License R
BHF Data Science Centre 91 80 26 24 Apache License 2.0 Python
NICE Digital 79 77 58 198 MIT License JavaScript
NHS-R Community 71 774 348 283 Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal R
OpenSAFELY Core 62 130 68 1075 Other Python
GIG Cymru - NHS Wales 55 71 9 35 MIT License Rust
NHS BNSSG Analytics 44 128 33 61 GNU General Public License v3.0 R
North Central London ICB 35 17 4 24 Other Python
Birmingham and Solihull ICS 33 31 30 45 Other R
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - CDU Data Science Team 32 40 14 74 Other R
NHS.UK 28 965 247 1067 MIT License HTML
NHS Leadership Academy 23 92 35 222 Other PHP
NHS Python Community for Healthcare 17 185 44 45 MIT License Python
NHS 111 Online - NHS Digital 12 4 12 49 Apache License 2.0 C#
NHSE-NDRS 7 9 2 1 MIT License R

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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