Creating a new NHS England: Health Education England, NHS Digital and NHS England have merged. More about the merger.

About us

Our teams design, develop and operate national IT and data services that support clinicians at work, help patients get the best care, and use data to improve treatment.

Organisation information

We merged with NHS England on 1 February 2023. Organisation information relating to NHS Digital is available on the National Archives website.

We’re often patients’ first point of contact with the NHS

We build and run the NHS App, NHS login and the NHS website. NHS 111 and most 999 centres run on our algorithms, reducing demand on the frontline.

Nearly all NHS staff rely on our services to do their jobs

Our national digital systems and platforms operate with 99.98% reliability to keep the NHS running. The NHS Spine facilitates messaging across a number of key services and platforms.

Researchers and planners use our data for discovery and insight

Our national data collections are used to improve the delivery of health care services, support life sciences research, inform policy development, and enable accountability.

Health and care providers trust our support to help keep them secure

We defend against cyberattacks nationally and support local organisations to protect themselves. Our Data Security Centre keeps patient data and information stored in safe and secure systems.

44 million confirmed accounts

NHS login allows users to access their personal health and care information

1 billion prescriptions

In 2022, 1 billion prescriptions were dispensed using the Electronic Prescription Service, making prescribing safer, easier and faster

Electronic Prescription Service

58 clinical trials supported

NHS DigiTrials supports clinical trials that are developing new treatments to improve health and care

1.6 million devices enrolled

We actively monitor and detect nefarious activity across the NHS network by enrolling our devices onto Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Cyber security services

More about what we do

Meet some of our people

Claire Dellar

Claire Dellar

Claire is a lead product manager in our Digital Services for Integrated Care team

Chris Day

Chris Day

Chris is a clinical informatics manager working in our cyber security team

Kranthi Mavuri

Kranthi Mavuri

Kranthi is a database developer in the Identity and Access Management team

Job Listings

Data Access Senior Manager

England

Band 8B - £58,972 - £68,525

Deputy Directors of Programmes

England

Band 9 - £99,891 - £114,949

NHS England Data Science PhD Internship

England

Band 6 - £35,392 - £42,618