All NHS trusts & providers — A to Z

England has 202 NHS trusts, 141 of them NHS foundation trusts, counted from the NHS Organisation Data Service (ODS) on 22 October 2026. The count includes the 10 ambulance trusts.

Scotland's NHS is made up of 14 regional NHS boards and 7 special NHS boards, one of them Public Health Scotland. Wales has 7 local health boards and 3 NHS trusts. Northern Ireland has 6 health and social care trusts, one of them its ambulance service.

The A to Z below is a different list. It holds the 571 organisations that appear in the NHS England waiting-time data on this site: 157 NHS trusts and 414 independent providers (private hospitals, clinics and other organisations that treat NHS-funded patients). NHS trusts that do not appear in that data, such as the ambulance trusts, are not in it. It also keeps some organisations with no recent figures, such as trusts that have merged into another trust.

How we counted: the England figure adds the 199 trusts in the ODS list of NHS trusts (CSV) that have an NHS England region and no closing date, and the 3 NHS foundation trusts that ODS lists as care trusts (CSV), both downloaded on 22 October 2026. ODS also records which trusts are foundation trusts. For Scotland we counted the boards listed on scot.nhs.uk on 22 October 2026. The page's opening sentence still says “7 Special NHS Boards and 1 public health body”, but on 1 April 2026 NHS Education for Scotland and NHS National Services Scotland were replaced by one organisation, Public Services Delivery Scotland (Scottish Government), and the list now names 7 special boards, with Public Health Scotland among them. In the A to Z, an organisation counts as an NHS trust when its name includes “NHS” and our records do not mark it as an independent provider.