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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: 29/03/2025 00:47:05

Organisation Open Repositories Stargazers Forks Open Issues Top License Top Language
NHS Digital 417 978 494 2846 MIT License Python
OpenSAFELY Studies 289 216 110 765 MIT License Python
NHS Connect 200 366 413 999 Apache License 2.0 CSS
University of Oxford - Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab 154 131 60 406 MIT License Python
NHS England 147 375 180 358 MIT License Python
NHS Business Services Authority 129 36 38 2 Apache License 2.0 Java
NHSX 103 650 332 339 MIT License Python
UK Health Security Agency 95 2632 645 289 MIT License Python
The Health Foundation Analytics Lab 89 238 55 21 MIT License R
NICE Digital 78 71 60 178 MIT License JavaScript
BHF Data Science Centre 77 77 24 21 Apache License 2.0 Python
NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU - The Strategy Unit 76 122 36 356 MIT License R
NHS-R Community 70 752 330 276 Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal R
OpenSAFELY Core 61 132 63 978 Other Python
NHS BNSSG Analytics 44 113 28 49 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
Birmingham and Solihull ICS 27 28 17 24 Other R
NHS.UK 26 936 229 1063 MIT License HTML
NHS Leadership Academy 23 91 35 238 Other PHP
NHS Python Community for Healthcare 17 180 38 46 MIT License Python
NHS 111 Online - NHS Digital 12 4 12 49 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