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: 29/08/2025 00:49:32
| Organisation | Open Repositories | Stargazers | Forks | Open Issues | Top License | Top Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NHS Digital | 458 | 1146 | 533 | 2788 | MIT License | Python |
| OpenSAFELY Studies | 298 | 235 | 118 | 772 | MIT License | Python |
| NHS Connect | 200 | 383 | 415 | 1026 | Apache License 2.0 | CSS |
| NHS England | 171 | 427 | 217 | 390 | MIT License | Python |
| University of Oxford - Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab | 152 | 131 | 58 | 394 | MIT License | Python |
| NHS Business Services Authority | 142 | 37 | 41 | 31 | Apache License 2.0 | Java |
| UK Health Security Agency | 108 | 2617 | 638 | 331 | MIT License | Python |
| NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU - The Strategy Unit | 103 | 174 | 42 | 485 | MIT License | R |
| NHSX | 103 | 670 | 358 | 341 | MIT License | Python |
| BHF Data Science Centre | 94 | 80 | 26 | 24 | Apache License 2.0 | Python |
| The Health Foundation Analytics Lab | 92 | 244 | 57 | 21 | MIT License | R |
| NICE Digital | 79 | 77 | 58 | 198 | MIT License | JavaScript |
| NHS-R Community | 72 | 771 | 340 | 298 | Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal | R |
| GIG Cymru - NHS Wales | 63 | 82 | 9 | 36 | MIT License | Rust |
| OpenSAFELY Core | 62 | 130 | 71 | 1056 | Other | Python |
| NHS BNSSG Analytics | 44 | 128 | 33 | 61 | GNU General Public License v3.0 | R |
| North Central London ICB | 36 | 18 | 4 | 23 | Other | Python |
| Birmingham and Solihull ICS | 33 | 32 | 30 | 45 | Other | R |
| Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - CDU Data Science Team | 32 | 40 | 14 | 74 | Other | R |
| NHS.UK | 28 | 967 | 249 | 1076 | MIT License | HTML |
| NHS Leadership Academy | 23 | 92 | 34 | 221 | Other | PHP |
| NHS Python Community for Healthcare | 17 | 187 | 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