NHS & Health FOI Tracker
What NHS trusts and central government are asked about health policy, medicines and care — and how they answer.
An independent tracker and analysis of Freedom of Information requests to NHS trusts, the Department of Health and Social Care, the MHRA and public health regulators, built from GOV.UK's public disclosure data and individual requests via WhatDoTheyKnow.
5,413
FOI releases tracked
54
Organisations covered
10
Topics
31 Aug 2026
Latest release
Volume of FOI releases over time
20062026
Latest analysis
- The shape of health FOI, now with 25 trusts added: what changed
Adding individual NHS trusts to this tracker completely reshuffled which subjects dominate. Here's the before and after.
- GOV.UK barely covers individual NHS trusts — so we went and got the data ourselves
GOV.UK's FOI feed almost entirely skips individual NHS trusts. Here's why, and how this tracker closes that gap using individual requests from WhatDoTheyKnow.
- The MHRA publishes FOI responses almost every week — what that reveals about medicines regulation requests
Medicines & Regulation is one of the largest topics in our health tracker, and the MHRA's weekly disclosure rhythm is unusual among the bodies we track. Here's what's in it.
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