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: 05/05/2025 00:54:37
| Organisation | Open Repositories | Stargazers | Forks | Open Issues | Top License | Top Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NHS Digital | 427 | 1021 | 506 | 2879 | MIT License | Python |
| OpenSAFELY Studies | 292 | 217 | 111 | 753 | MIT License | Python |
| NHS Connect | 200 | 374 | 415 | 989 | Apache License 2.0 | CSS |
| University of Oxford - Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab | 154 | 131 | 60 | 406 | MIT License | Python |
| NHS England | 149 | 381 | 188 | 357 | MIT License | Python |
| NHS Business Services Authority | 133 | 36 | 38 | 2 | Apache License 2.0 | Java |
| NHSX | 103 | 653 | 332 | 339 | MIT License | Python |
| UK Health Security Agency | 98 | 2635 | 648 | 298 | MIT License | Python |
| The Health Foundation Analytics Lab | 90 | 239 | 55 | 21 | MIT License | R |
| BHF Data Science Centre | 83 | 80 | 25 | 22 | Apache License 2.0 | Python |
| NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU - The Strategy Unit | 81 | 137 | 36 | 397 | MIT License | R |
| NICE Digital | 78 | 73 | 58 | 189 | MIT License | JavaScript |
| NHS-R Community | 70 | 756 | 334 | 277 | Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal | R |
| OpenSAFELY Core | 61 | 133 | 66 | 1015 | Other | Python |
| NHS BNSSG Analytics | 44 | 121 | 31 | 56 | 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 | 30 | 16 | 4 | 5 | Other | Python |
| Birmingham and Solihull ICS | 30 | 30 | 27 | 25 | Other | R |
| NHS.UK | 27 | 939 | 231 | 1047 | MIT License | HTML |
| NHS Leadership Academy | 23 | 92 | 35 | 219 | Other | PHP |
| GIG Cymru - NHS Wales | 21 | 24 | 4 | 18 | MIT License | Rust |
| NHS Python Community for Healthcare | 17 | 181 | 39 | 46 | MIT License | Python |
| NHS 111 Online - NHS Digital | 12 | 4 | 12 | 49 | Apache License 2.0 | C# |
| NHSE-NDRS | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 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