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: 10/02/2025 00:45:33
Organisation | Open Repositories | Stargazers | Forks | Open Issues | Top License | Top Language |
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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