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: 17/09/2025 00:47:47
| Organisation | Open Repositories | Stargazers | Forks | Open Issues | Top License | Top Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NHS Digital | 461 | 1157 | 536 | 2814 | MIT License | Python |
| OpenSAFELY Studies | 298 | 236 | 119 | 786 | MIT License | Python |
| NHS Connect | 198 | 380 | 412 | 1012 | Apache License 2.0 | CSS |
| NHS England | 178 | 437 | 245 | 391 | MIT License | Python |
| University of Oxford - Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab | 152 | 132 | 58 | 394 | MIT License | Python |
| NHS Business Services Authority | 145 | 37 | 41 | 31 | Apache License 2.0 | Java |
| UK Health Security Agency | 111 | 2617 | 637 | 335 | MIT License | Python |
| NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU - The Strategy Unit | 104 | 178 | 42 | 489 | MIT License | R |
| NHSX | 103 | 672 | 359 | 341 | MIT License | Python |
| BHF Data Science Centre | 96 | 80 | 26 | 24 | Apache License 2.0 | Python |
| The Health Foundation Analytics Lab | 93 | 246 | 57 | 21 | MIT License | R |
| NICE Digital | 79 | 77 | 58 | 198 | MIT License | JavaScript |
| NHS-R Community | 72 | 774 | 343 | 296 | Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal | R |
| GIG Cymru - NHS Wales | 65 | 84 | 9 | 36 | MIT License | Rust |
| OpenSAFELY Core | 62 | 131 | 72 | 1104 | Other | Python |
| NHS BNSSG Analytics | 44 | 129 | 33 | 63 | GNU General Public License v3.0 | R |
| North Central London ICB | 36 | 19 | 4 | 16 | Other | Python |
| Birmingham and Solihull ICS | 33 | 32 | 30 | 43 | Other | R |
| Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - CDU Data Science Team | 32 | 40 | 14 | 74 | Other | R |
| NHS.UK | 28 | 973 | 253 | 1095 | MIT License | HTML |
| NHS Leadership Academy | 24 | 94 | 35 | 223 | Other | PHP |
| NHS Python Community for Healthcare | 17 | 190 | 44 | 45 | MIT License | Python |
| NHS 111 Online - NHS Digital | 11 | 5 | 11 | 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