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: 21/02/2025 00:45:15
| Organisation | Open Repositories | Stargazers | Forks | Open Issues | Top License | Top Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NHS Digital | 403 | 946 | 491 | 2926 | MIT License | Python |
| OpenSAFELY Studies | 288 | 214 | 109 | 764 | MIT License | Python |
| NHS Connect | 200 | 360 | 414 | 979 | Apache License 2.0 | CSS |
| University of Oxford - Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab | 153 | 129 | 60 | 405 | MIT License | Python |
| NHS England | 135 | 353 | 170 | 357 | MIT License | Python |
| NHS Business Services Authority | 130 | 36 | 38 | 2 | Apache License 2.0 | Java |
| NHSX | 103 | 644 | 332 | 339 | MIT License | Python |
| UK Health Security Agency | 94 | 2627 | 642 | 276 | MIT License | R |
| The Health Foundation Analytics Lab | 87 | 237 | 55 | 21 | MIT License | R |
| NICE Digital | 78 | 71 | 60 | 166 | MIT License | JavaScript |
| BHF Data Science Centre | 74 | 77 | 24 | 21 | Apache License 2.0 | Python |
| NHS-R Community | 70 | 745 | 327 | 274 | Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal | R |
| NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU - The Strategy Unit | 69 | 119 | 36 | 248 | MIT License | R |
| OpenSAFELY Core | 61 | 134 | 63 | 1008 | Other | Python |
| NHS BNSSG Analytics | 42 | 112 | 28 | 29 | 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 |
| Birmingham and Solihull ICS | 26 | 28 | 17 | 24 | Other | R |
| NHS.UK | 25 | 923 | 226 | 993 | MIT License | HTML |
| NHS Leadership Academy | 23 | 90 | 35 | 237 | Other | PHP |
| NHS Python Community for Healthcare | 17 | 178 | 37 | 46 | 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