What's new
Find out what's happening with the service manual.
Latest updates
August 2020
| Section | Update |
|---|---|
| Accessibility | |
| Content style guide |
Added new entry for NHS Test and Trace to A to Z of NHS health writing |
| Get in touch |
Added a new "Get in touch" page |
Latest blog posts
Posts by the service manual team and community.
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.
Making the NHS.UK focus state accessible (with help from GOV.UK)
The NHS is for everyone, so all NHS digital services need to be accessible to everyone. That's why the NHS digital service manual team recently made the NHS.UK frontend more accessible by redesigning the focus state styles — with help from the GOV.UK Design System team. Dave Hunter, designer, explains.
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.