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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: 03/10/2025 00:48:08

Organisation Open Repositories Stargazers Forks Open Issues Top License Top Language
NHS Digital 471 1166 541 2817 MIT License Python
OpenSAFELY Studies 298 237 119 807 MIT License Python
NHS Connect 198 380 411 1027 Apache License 2.0 CSS
NHS England 179 441 248 392 MIT License Python
University of Oxford - Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab 152 132 58 395 MIT License Python
NHS Business Services Authority 145 37 42 31 Apache License 2.0 Java
UK Health Security Agency 111 2591 621 333 MIT License Python
NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU - The Strategy Unit 106 180 42 526 MIT License R
NHSX 103 673 359 341 MIT License Python
BHF Data Science Centre 96 80 27 24 Apache License 2.0 Python
The Health Foundation Analytics Lab 93 246 57 21 MIT License R
NICE Digital 80 77 58 207 MIT License JavaScript
NHS-R Community 72 780 346 293 Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal R
GIG Cymru - NHS Wales 67 84 10 37 MIT License Rust
OpenSAFELY Core 62 132 72 1076 Other Python
NHS BNSSG Analytics 44 131 33 65 GNU General Public License v3.0 R
North Central London ICB 37 19 5 33 Other Python
Birmingham and Solihull ICS 33 32 30 46 Other R
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - CDU Data Science Team 32 40 14 74 Other R
NHS.UK 27 979 253 1104 MIT License JavaScript
NHS Leadership Academy 24 94 36 224 Other PHP
NHS Python Community for Healthcare 17 190 44 45 MIT License Python
NHS 111 Online - NHS Digital 11 5 11 49 Apache License 2.0 C#
NHSE-NDRS 9 9 2 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