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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: 22/02/2025 00:43:24

Organisation Open Repositories Stargazers Forks Open Issues Top License Top Language
NHS Digital 404 946 491 2913 MIT License Python
OpenSAFELY Studies 288 214 109 767 MIT License Python
NHS Connect 200 360 414 978 Apache License 2.0 CSS
University of Oxford - Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab 153 129 60 405 MIT License Python
NHS England 136 354 171 359 MIT License Python
NHS Business Services Authority 130 36 38 2 Apache License 2.0 Java
NHSX 103 644 332 339 MIT License Python
UK Health Security Agency 94 2627 642 277 MIT License R
The Health Foundation Analytics Lab 87 237 55 21 MIT License R
NICE Digital 78 71 60 167 MIT License JavaScript
BHF Data Science Centre 74 77 24 21 Apache License 2.0 Python
NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU - The Strategy Unit 70 119 36 248 MIT License R
NHS-R Community 70 746 327 274 Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal R
OpenSAFELY Core 61 134 63 1002 Other Python
NHS BNSSG Analytics 42 112 28 29 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 26 28 17 24 Other R
NHS.UK 25 924 227 992 MIT License HTML
NHS Leadership Academy 23 90 35 237 Other PHP
NHS Python Community for Healthcare 17 179 37 46 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