Incorporation¶
Open Health Technology CIC is a community interest company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 27 October 2026, company number 17544421.
About the name
The company is registered as Open Health Technology CIC. A change of name to Open Health Technology Foundation CIC is in progress.
Documents¶
- Certificate of incorporation (PDF), issued by Companies House on 27 October 2026.
- CIC36 declaration, signed and submitted (PDF, redacted). The directors' signatures and the optional contact details on page 3 have been blacked out. Nothing else has been changed.
- Articles of Association, as registered (PDF).
The community interest statement¶
Every CIC must declare who it exists to benefit and how. This is the text of OHTF's statement, transcribed from the signed form.
Who the company's activities will benefit¶
The public and the wider health and care community, particularly patients, clinicians, NHS and other health and care organisations, and individual developers, including clinician-developers, who create or maintain clinical digital tools. The community is not restricted by geography, organisation, or membership.
Activities, and how they benefit the community¶
| Activity | How the community will benefit |
|---|---|
| Develop, maintain, publish and host open-source health technology code, build and deployment configuration, tests, documentation, data formats and clinical calculation logic under open licences. | Patients, clinicians and health and care organisations will have access to transparent, reusable digital tools that are not controlled by a single commercial supplier. Open publication enables independent scrutiny, local adaptation and continued use. |
| Provide technical stewardship and operational support for clinical digital tools and clinical safety governance, on behalf of other organisations where agreed in writing. | Clinical software that would otherwise be discontinued when its original institutional home changes priorities can remain maintained and available. This reduces the risk of patients and clinicians being left without a safe, supported service. |
| Offer paid hosting, implementation, support and training services around this open-source software without restricting the public's rights to use, modify and redistribute the underlying code. | Income from these services supports the long-term maintenance and safe operation of open-source health technology, while preserving public access to the underlying tools and avoiding vendor lock-in. |
| Provide shared regulatory and governance infrastructure, including clinical safety officer resource, medical device regulatory support and liability cover, to individual developers and smaller organisations. | Individual developers, including clinician-developers, and smaller organisations can bring clinically useful software to the NHS and other health systems safely when they could not practically obtain this infrastructure alone. |
What happens to any surplus¶
Any surplus will be retained and applied only to further the Company's community-benefit activities, including developing, maintaining, hosting, stewarding and safely operating open-source health technology; providing clinical safety, regulatory and governance support; and making that support accessible to individual developers and smaller organisations. The Company will not distribute surplus to its members. If the Company transfers surplus or residual assets to an asset-locked body not specified in its Articles, it will do so with the consent of the CIC Regulator.
Political declaration¶
The directors declared that the company will not be a political party, a political campaigning organisation, or a subsidiary of either.
The official record¶
The Companies House record holds the full incorporation filing and the company's ongoing filings.