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Organisation Data Service (ODS)

We're responsible for publishing codes that identify organisations and individuals across health and social care.

Help us to improve

Help us to make improvements by giving feedback on the service catalogue.

Tell us what you think.

ODS is looking for volunteers to take part in some user feedback sessions. We want to test a prototype tool being developed to potentially replace the ODS Portal and ODS DataPoint.

Contact [email protected] if you’d like to get involved.


About the service

The Organisation Data Service (ODS) issues and manages unique identification codes (ODS codes) and accompanying reference data for organisations that interact with any area of the NHS. 

Find out more about the people and services that rely on ODS codes.



Find organisation data

We have a range of products that allow you to access ODS data in a way that suits you, form a quick look up via the ODS portal, to creating and exporting reports in DataPoint, to querying the ODS APIs.


Update your data


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Last edited: 28 September 2023 3:08 pm