We extract condition profiles, GP directories, pharmacy locations, medicine guidelines, and patient reviews from NHS.uk. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet.
Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.
Complete list of extractable fields for GP Practices objects from nhs.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"ods_code": "Y02831", "practice_name": "Riverside Medical Centre", "postcode": "SE1 1AA", "accepting_new_patients": true, "cqc_rating": "Good", "patient_rating": 4.2, "review_count": 142
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Complete list of extractable fields for Medicines A-Z objects from nhs.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"medicine_name": "Amoxicillin", "alternative_names": "['Amoxil']", "prescription_only": true, "who_can_take": "Adults and children", "side_effects": "['Nausea', 'Diarrhoea']", "updated_date": "2023-11-14"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Conditions A-Z objects from nhs.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"condition_name": "Asthma", "symptoms": "['Wheezing', 'Breathlessness', 'Tight chest']", "when_to_see_gp": "If you think you have asthma", "emergency_advice": "Call 999 if you have a severe asthma attack", "last_reviewed": "2024-01-22", "related_conditions": "['Allergies']"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Dentists objects from nhs.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"practice_name": "Smile Dental Care", "postcode": "M1 1AE", "nhs_patients_accepted": false, "children_accepted": true, "cqc_rating": "Requires Improvement", "wheelchair_access": true
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Complete list of extractable fields for Patient Reviews objects from nhs.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"review_id": "REV-99281", "service_type": "GP", "star_rating": 5, "review_title": "Excellent care", "visited_date": "2024-02", "posted_date": "2024-02-15T14:30:00Z"
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Our NHS.uk scraper handles complex geolocation routing, rate limit circumvention, and unstructured clinical text parsing to deliver normalised datasets.
Extract full ODS codes, addresses, contact details, and facility information for every registered NHS service provider.
Automate postcode lookups to extract geographic radius data and service availability across all UK regions.
Capture dosage guidelines, side effects, interactions, and alternative names from the official clinical corpus.
Extract Care Quality Commission ratings and inspection report links embedded directly on NHS service profiles.
Paginate through user-submitted reviews, star ratings, and official staff responses across thousands of service pages.
Parse unstructured clinical text into normalised fields covering symptoms, treatments, and emergency advice.
Track exact status flags for practices accepting new NHS patients, isolating adult versus child availability.
Extract ward details, specialist services, and A&E indicators for major NHS trusts and independent hospitals.
Emit diffs when a GP changes acceptance status or a CQC rating updates, minimising data processing overhead.
Map inconsistent NHS trust page layouts into normalised JSON records ready for warehouse ingestion.
Brief in. Clean data out.
Provide postcodes, ICB regions, or specific clinical categories. We design the extraction schema together.
We configure Scrapy crawlers, UK proxy routing, postcode iteration logic, and rate limit handling.
Schema validation, null-rate checks, and ODS code verification before full launch.
JSON, CSV, or Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket or data warehouse on agreed cadence.
NHS.uk relies on complex geolocation APIs, rate-limited endpoints, and frequent DOM updates. We handle the infrastructure so you receive clean data.
NHS service finders require valid UK postcodes and coordinate mapping. We maintain a full UK postcode matrix to systematically query service radii and ensure absolute geographic coverage.
Public sector sites employ strict WAF rate limiting. We distribute requests across our UK residential proxy pool to maintain high throughput without triggering blocks or degrading site performance.
Condition and medicine profiles often lack strict DOM structures. We use text-pattern matching to classify text blocks into symptoms, treatments, and side effects for structured output.
Patient reviews span thousands of pages per trust. We manage stateful crawler sessions to extract complete historical review corpora without dropping records.
We extract and validate the NHS Organisation Data Service (ODS) codes for every service profile, ensuring scraped data joins perfectly with your internal healthcare datasets.
Integrate GP, pharmacy, and dentist locations directly into patient-facing applications.
Train medical language models on the NHS Conditions and Medicines A-Z clinical corpus.
Monitor which dental practices and GPs are accepting new NHS patients across specific regions.
Aggregate patient reviews across NHS trusts to evaluate care quality and patient satisfaction trends.
Map opening hours, contact details, and services for independent pharmacies across the UK.
Analyse geographic distribution of healthcare facilities against population density and CQC ratings.
"NHS.uk provides the definitive record of UK healthcare services, but extracting that data across thousands of postcodes requires infrastructure, not just a script."
Querying the NHS service finder manually is trivial. Automating it across 1.7 million UK postcodes while handling rate limits, DOM inconsistencies, and unstructured clinical text requires dedicated engineering. DataFlirt builds pipelines that turn public healthcare directories into queryable warehouse tables.
Everything supported by our nhs.uk scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.
Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.
We partition the UK postcode matrix across Airflow workers, executing parallel searches against the NHS service finder to ensure total geographic coverage.
Traffic is routed exclusively through UK residential and mobile IPs to respect regional routing expectations and avoid WAF blocks.
NHS.uk templates undergo frequent accessibility updates. Our fallback selectors ensure data flows even when CSS classes change.
Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.
About nhs.uk scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.
Ask us directly →Scraping public directory and clinical information from NHS.uk is permissible for non-disruptive use cases. We strictly target public data and enforce rate limits to ensure zero impact on NHS infrastructure.
Yes. We can restrict the pipeline to specific Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), counties, or coordinate radii based on your requirements.
We capture the exact status flag for GPs and dentists, tracking changes over time to provide historical availability data.
Yes. We extract star ratings, written feedback, visit dates, and official staff responses across GPs, hospitals, and dentists.
We maintain pipelines that extract the full catalogue of medicines, including uses, side effects, and dosage guidelines, delivered as structured JSON.
Service directories and condition profiles are typically refreshed weekly or monthly. We configure the pipeline cadence to match your specific requirements.
No. We only extract publicly available directory and clinical information. We do not interact with the NHS App, patient records, or any authenticated portals.
20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. From complete GP directories to the full Medicines A-Z corpus. We build and maintain the scraping infrastructure so you get clean, warehouse-ready data.
