Organisations Nhs
08 June 2026
Overview
The leadership organisation for the NHS in England, responsible for national priorities, service oversight, and major transformation programmes including technology, data, and screening services.
About
NHS England leads the National Health Service in England and describes itself as the leadership organisation for the NHS in England. Its role includes setting direction and priorities for the service, working with regions, integrated care systems, and NHS providers, and supporting the delivery of high-quality healthcare at national scale.
NHS England’s official history states that it was originally established as part of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and formally came into being in April 2013. Its current responsibilities include technology, digital and data leadership, and it absorbed functions connected with screening services and wider public health oversight in 2021.
As of June 8, 2026, the NHS England site highlights a major shift from analogue to digital in the 10 Year Health Plan for England, while the careers page positions the wider NHS as 1.3 million strong and points candidates to NHS Jobs and digital, data, and technology opportunities across the service.
For this post, the supplied example role sits within the NHS England Digital Screening programme and focuses on data engineering for dashboards, reporting products, and modern data platform delivery using PySpark and Palantir tooling in an Agile multidisciplinary environment.
Details
- Company
- NHS England
- Location
- London, England
- Website
- https://www.england.nhs.uk/
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/nhs-england
- Careers
- https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/?_ts=1
- Companies House
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/nhs-england/about
- Founded
- 2013
- CEO
- Sir James Mackey
- Industry
- Hospital and Health Care
- Size
- 1300000
- Tech Stack
- PySpark, ETL, Data Pipelines, Palantir, NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP), Dashboards, Reporting, DevSecOps, TDD, CI/CD, Agile delivery
- Specialties
- Healthcare delivery, Public health, Digital transformation, Screening services, Data and analytics, Service commissioning, Clinical operations, Population health, and National health policy delivery