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Find out what's happening with the service manual.
Latest updates
February 2021
| Section | Update |
|---|---|
| Content style guide |
Updated our guidance on PDFs and other non-HTML documents Added explanation and more examples to the section on hyphens and dashes Removed the readability tools page and explained that we do not recommend them on our health literacy page. Removed 2 broken links from health literacy page. Amended the site map page to bring it into line with the site map entry in the style guide |
| Design system |
Added page template guidance |
Latest blog posts
Posts by the service manual team and community.
10 ways the NHS digital service manual can help you
If you want to build easy-to-use digital health services that put people first, Adrian Smith explains why the NHS digital service manual is a great place to start
Building great digital services during a crisis
Lucy Ha, Product and Delivery Management Graduate, explains how the NHS digital service manual is helping organisations quickly build accessible, consistent digital products and services needed to respond to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
Latest show and tell
NHS digital service manual show and tell
We live-streamed the show and tell but the original video quality was not very good. This video has the presentation slides with the live audio.
The team talks about the redesign of the service manual, how to write good questions for forms, inclusive language, the beta service standard for health and the NHS Digital accessibility lab in Leeds. The NHS Leadership Academy also share a Wordpress theme based on the NHS.UK frontend library.