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: 10/07/2025 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