Data and technology that improves lives

We support NHS staff at work, help people get the best care, and use the nation's health data to drive research and transform services.

Keeping patient data safe

NHS Digital collects data from GP practices to help support care and research. Find out about our new way of collecting this data, and what your choices are.

3 billion firewall transactions a day

We actively monitor and protect devices across the NHS and work directly with local teams in response to cyber threats

Cyber and data security

99.94% availability

We provide services the NHS can rely on, with near-perfect average availability across 145 live services

Our services

1.4 billion transactions

NHS Spine connects more than 20,000 health and care organisations, allowing information to be shared securely

NHS Spine

23.6 million verified users

The NHS App provides a simple and secure way for people to access a range of NHS services

NHS App

Our services

The NHS App: a simple, secure way to get information and manage NHS services

NHS 111 online: helpful medical advice, and access to urgent healthcare

COVID Oximetry @home: looking after coronavirus patients in their homes

Emergency Department Digital Integration: reducing A&E demand, and directing patients to the right care

Breaking NHS boundaries

Hyper-connected mobile units are helping protect some of the most vulnerable people in our society.

Latest blogs

Tony Heap, Lead Product Owner for API management, leans against a whiteboard at NHS Digital's Leeds office

Making integration easier for people building healthcare software

Tony Heap, Lead Product Owner for API management at NHS Digital, explains how our new API platform can create a more competitive marketplace for healthcare systems.

What is ‘integration in a box’?

We want to make it as easy as possible for suppliers to integrate their services with the NHS App. Dan Collins, Senior Product Manager at NHS Digital, explains some new self-serve tools we think will help.

TREs in the NHS – how health data sharing is saving lives

NHS Digital’s director of research and clinical trials, Michael Chapman, looks at the organisation’s development of a trusted research environment (TRE) in the NHS.

Collage image of Grace Melvin, co-chair of the GP Data Patient and Public Engagement and Communications Advisory Panel

We must listen to the public on GP data

Grace Melvin, co-chair of the GP Data Patient and Public Engagement Advisory Panel, explains the importance of putting people's voices and concerns at the heart of the effort to improve the NHS's use of GP data.

Data and information

How we look after your information

Collecting data on health and care is an important part of our role in the health service. We collect and store some information from people's health and care records so that it can be used to run the health service, manage epidemics, plan for the future and research health conditions, diseases and treatments. We always make sure data we collect is handled securely and in line with the law. We don't hold your medical records.

Looking after your data

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Data and technology that improves lives

Our services

Latest blogs

Making integration easier for people building healthcare software

What is ‘integration in a box’?

TREs in the NHS – how health data sharing is saving lives

We must listen to the public on GP data

Data and information

Statistics and publications

Coronavirus dashboards

How we look after your information

Data and technology that improves lives

Our services

Latest blogs

Making integration easier for people building healthcare software

What is ‘integration in a box’?

TREs in the NHS – how health data sharing is saving lives

We must listen to the public on GP data

Data and information

Statistics and publications

Coronavirus dashboards

How we look after your information

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