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: 26/06/2025 00:55:26
| Organisation | Open Repositories | Stargazers | Forks | Open Issues | Top License | Top Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NHS Digital | 445 | 1076 | 517 | 2648 | MIT License | Python |
| OpenSAFELY Studies | 296 | 225 | 114 | 757 | MIT License | Python |
| NHS Connect | 200 | 381 | 415 | 1011 | Apache License 2.0 | CSS |
| NHS England | 157 | 406 | 207 | 369 | MIT License | Python |
| University of Oxford - Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab | 155 | 132 | 60 | 408 | MIT License | Python |
| NHS Business Services Authority | 138 | 37 | 38 | 2 | Apache License 2.0 | Java |
| UK Health Security Agency | 104 | 2638 | 646 | 319 | MIT License | Python |
| NHSX | 103 | 657 | 338 | 339 | MIT License | Python |
| The Health Foundation Analytics Lab | 92 | 240 | 56 | 21 | MIT License | R |
| NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU - The Strategy Unit | 90 | 158 | 39 | 405 | MIT License | R |
| BHF Data Science Centre | 89 | 80 | 25 | 22 | Apache License 2.0 | Python |
| NICE Digital | 78 | 74 | 58 | 193 | MIT License | JavaScript |
| NHS-R Community | 71 | 770 | 345 | 281 | Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal | R |
| OpenSAFELY Core | 61 | 128 | 67 | 1032 | Other | Python |
| NHS BNSSG Analytics | 44 | 126 | 32 | 52 | GNU General Public License v3.0 | R |
| GIG Cymru - NHS Wales | 42 | 51 | 8 | 37 | MIT License | Rust |
| Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - CDU Data Science Team | 32 | 40 | 14 | 74 | Other | R |
| Birmingham and Solihull ICS | 32 | 31 | 30 | 49 | Other | R |
| North Central London ICB | 30 | 16 | 4 | 4 | Other | Python |
| NHS.UK | 27 | 954 | 239 | 1074 | MIT License | HTML |
| NHS Leadership Academy | 23 | 92 | 34 | 224 | Other | PHP |
| NHS Python Community for Healthcare | 17 | 184 | 43 | 46 | MIT License | Python |
| NHS 111 Online - NHS Digital | 12 | 4 | 12 | 49 | Apache License 2.0 | C# |
| NHSE-NDRS | 8 | 9 | 1 | 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