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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: 10/02/2025 00:45:33

Organisation Open Repositories Stargazers Forks Open Issues Top License Top Language
NHS Digital 399 918 490 2918 MIT License Python
OpenSAFELY Studies 287 211 108 763 MIT License Python
NHS Connect 200 359 413 830 Apache License 2.0 CSS
University of Oxford - Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab 153 129 60 403 MIT License Python
NHS England 133 344 170 357 MIT License Python
NHS Business Services Authority 128 36 53 2 Apache License 2.0 Java
NHSX 103 645 332 340 MIT License Python
UK Health Security Agency 93 2625 640 282 MIT License R
The Health Foundation Analytics Lab 87 236 54 21 MIT License R
NICE Digital 78 71 61 165 MIT License JavaScript
BHF Data Science Centre 72 77 24 21 Apache License 2.0 Python
NHS-R Community 70 744 327 275 Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal R
NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU - The Strategy Unit 62 117 36 185 MIT License R
OpenSAFELY Core 61 134 64 956 Other Python
NHS BNSSG Analytics 40 112 28 30 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
NHS.UK 25 922 223 1010 MIT License HTML
Birmingham and Solihull ICS 24 28 17 27 Other R
NHS Leadership Academy 23 90 35 233 Other PHP
NHS Python Community for Healthcare 17 178 37 45 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