NHS & Health FOI Tracker
What central government is asked about health policy, medicines and the NHS — and how it answers.
An independent tracker and analysis of Freedom of Information releases from the Department of Health and Social Care, the MHRA, NHS national bodies and public health regulators, built from GOV.UK's public FOI disclosure data.
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 central-government health FOI: nine topics, one dominant
A look at how our tracked health FOI releases split across subject areas — and why medicines regulation so heavily outweighs everything else.
- Why most NHS trusts aren't in this dataset at all
GOV.UK's FOI feed barely touches individual NHS trusts. Here's what central government FOI data about health actually covers instead, and why Monitor — a body that stopped existing in 2016 — is still one of our biggest sources.
- The MHRA publishes FOI responses almost every week — what that reveals about medicines regulation requests
Medicines & Regulation is the largest topic 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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