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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: 10/07/2025 00:55:30

Organisation Open Repositories Stargazers Forks Open Issues Top License Top Language
NHS Digital 445 1096 524 2630 MIT License Python
OpenSAFELY Studies 297 228 113 762 MIT License Python
NHS Connect 200 381 414 1017 Apache License 2.0 CSS
NHS England 157 405 207 370 MIT License Python
University of Oxford - Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab 155 132 60 408 MIT License Python
NHS Business Services Authority 139 37 39 2 Apache License 2.0 Java
UK Health Security Agency 104 2640 646 320 MIT License Python
NHSX 103 657 341 340 MIT License Python
The Health Foundation Analytics Lab 92 241 56 21 MIT License R
NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU - The Strategy Unit 92 161 39 411 MIT License R
BHF Data Science Centre 89 80 25 22 Apache License 2.0 Python
NICE Digital 78 74 58 196 MIT License JavaScript
NHS-R Community 71 771 347 280 Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal R
OpenSAFELY Core 61 129 67 1017 Other Python
NHS BNSSG Analytics 44 126 32 52 GNU General Public License v3.0 R
GIG Cymru - NHS Wales 44 52 8 38 MIT License Rust
Birmingham and Solihull ICS 33 31 30 46 Other R
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - CDU Data Science Team 32 40 14 74 Other R
North Central London ICB 30 16 4 4 Other Python
NHS.UK 27 957 244 1088 MIT License HTML
NHS Leadership Academy 23 92 34 224 Other PHP
NHS Python Community for Healthcare 17 184 44 52 MIT License Python
NHS 111 Online - NHS Digital 12 4 12 49 Apache License 2.0 C#
NHSE-NDRS 7 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