Every fact on UK Hospitals comes from an official source. This page lists those sources and the licences they are published under.
Official data
| Source | What we use it for |
|---|---|
| Care Quality Commission (CQC) | Registered locations, providers, service types and inspection ratings |
| NHS England Organisation Data Service (ODS) | NHS organisations, trusts and sites, and their codes |
| NHS England A&E statistics | Which hospital sites have an A&E department |
| NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) | Community pharmacy list, opening hours and NHS services provided |
| General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) | Registered pharmacy premises |
| Public Health Scotland | Hospital list, A&E figures and waits in Scotland |
| StatsWales (Welsh Government) | A&E figures and waits in Wales |
| Healthcare Improvement Scotland and Healthcare Inspectorate Wales | Private hospitals |
| Office for National Statistics Postcode Directory (ONSPD) | Locations and distances |
| Office for National Statistics boundaries | Region and London borough maps |
| National Public Transport Access Nodes (NaPTAN), Department for Transport | Nearest stations and bus stops outside London |
| NHS website service profiles | Opening times, whether practices are taking new patients, and facilities, as each service has published them |
| Official websites of hospitals and services | Links to visiting, parking and patient advice pages |
We check facts against these sources and record when each page was last checked. Distances are straight-line estimates from postcode locations.
Licences
Contains Care Quality Commission information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Contains NHS Business Services Authority information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Contains NHS England information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026.
Contains information from the General Pharmaceutical Council register.
Public transport and step-free access: nearest stations, bus stops and routes, and step-free access from street to platform come from Transport for London open data (the TfL Unified API and TfL’s step-free station topology data). Powered by TfL Open Data. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2016 and Geomni UK Map data © and database rights [2019]. Used under the TfL transport data service licence, which is based on the Open Government Licence v2.0. Walking times are our estimates from the postcode centre, not TfL figures. Lift outages are not included: check TfL before you travel.
Public transport outside London: nearest railway, metro and tram stations and bus stops come from the National Public Transport Access Nodes (NaPTAN), Department for Transport, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. NaPTAN does not list the routes that call at each stop.
Waiting times and A&E performance: NHS England Referral to Treatment and A&E attendances statistics, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practice survey results: GP Patient Survey, NHS England and Ipsos, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Scotland: hospital list and A&E figures from Public Health Scotland open data, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Wales: NHS hospital sites from the NHS Organisation Data Service, and A&E figures from StatsWales (Welsh Government), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Private hospitals in Scotland and Wales: the register of Healthcare Improvement Scotland and the service directory of Healthcare Inspectorate Wales.
Planned treatment waits in Scotland and Wales: Public Health Scotland Stage of Treatment Waiting Times, and StatsWales NHS waiting lists (Welsh Government), both licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are for the whole health board. Specialties at Scottish hospitals come from Public Health Scotland bed statistics.
Telephone numbers in Scotland and Wales: read from NHS board, health board and hospital operator websites. Each hospital page links to the page used.
Bank holidays: GOV.UK bank holidays data, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Corrections
If something is wrong, please tell us. We check every report against the official source.