NHS England orders GitHub repos made private
NHS England orders GitHub repos made private
https://letsdatascience.com/news/nhs-england-orders-github-repos-made-private-c9b3caee
Publish Date: 2026-05-05 05:20:00
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According to guidance seen by The Register, NHS England has instructed maintainers to set public GitHub repositories to private by May 11. The internal guidance cites risks from advanced AI models, naming Mythos and referencing Anthropic, and says repositories should not be public “unless there is an explicit and exceptional need,” The Register reports. An NHS England spokesperson told The Register, “We are temporarily restricting access to some NHS England source code to further strengthen cybersecurity while we assess the impact of rapid developments in AI models,” and added, “We will continue to publish source code where there is a clear need.” _New Scientist_ separately published the same deadline and quoted guidance that “All source code repositories must be private by default.” A technical blog (shkspr.mobi) published a leaked guidance note referred to as SDLC-8 and a quote attributed to a senior technical person describing imminent removals of nonessential repos.
