What's new - Updates

Added content in the design system, content style guide, accessibility guidance and service standard to encourage people to contribute and improve the service manual

Updated guidance on accessibility statements within the product and delivery page

Added a new "service manual team" page

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

Updated the guidance on dates

Added more examples to the section on capitalisation

Added a new entry for "site map" and updated the entry for the NHS App in the A to Z of NHS health writing

Added more links between the A to Z of NHS health writing and the rest of the content style guide

Added guidance for asking for whole numbers using the text input component

Updated code examples with inputmode numeric for the ask users for their NHS number pattern and date inputcomponent

Updated code example for the font weight normal override class

Added new and updated guidance on using bold, contractions in URLs and page titles, full stops and quotation marks to the page about formatting and punctuation

Added new entries for GUM clinic and vial to the A to Z of NHS health writing

Removed readability tool page with broken link to SMOG calculator while we consider it further

Removed full stops from the card component and other cards in the service manual to align with the content style guide

Updated typography bulleted lists and numbered lists examples

Corrected date in images component

Added card component

Added responsive table component

Added tag component

Added nhsuk-link--no-visited-state style for links in typography

Update warning callout guidance with a section on making headings accessible

Added new entry for phone and phone numbers to A to Z of NHS health writing

Added NHS digital accessibility posters

Added new entry for NHS Test and Trace to A to Z of NHS health writing

Added prototype kit how to guides link to the prototyping page

Added a new "Get in touch" page

Updated guidance and added more examples for the error message component

Added guidance for the main wrapper spacing modifier classes

Updated the footer component guidance

Updated the backlog of components and patterns

Added conditionally revealing radio and checkbox components

Added new entries for calories, Deaf people, hearing loss, death and trimesters to A to Z of NHS health writing

Added a reference from disease to "condition" in the A to Z of NHS health writing

Added a new section on calories to the Numbers, measurements, dates and time page

Mentioned the social model of disability in the section on disabilities and conditions on the Inclusive language page

Changed the memorable number example under telephone numbers in the A to Z of NHS writing and explained that we use "call" or "phone"

Removed "straight away" from our guidance on hyphens

Standardised links in the A to Z of NHS health writing

Added new entry for coronavirus (COVID-19) to A to Z of NHS health writing

Updated Patterns index page with new wording after testing

Updated cookie policy with information about other organisations' cookies

Updated Your privacy page with information about other organisations' cookies and with a section on social media

We published a new video of our public show and tell on YouTube.

Added a new entry in the A to Z of NHS health writing for "GP" and an updated entry for doctor"

Added an explanation about using months up to 2 years to the section on age in the Inclusive language page

Added new guidance on telephone numbers to the A to Z of NHS health writing, based on GOV.UK guidance

Improved the guidance on ordinal numbers on the Numbers, measurements, dates and time page

Removed the reference to the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors on the content style guide hub page and added contact details instead

Updated guidance on sex and intersex on the Inclusive language page

Clarified guidance on temperature on the A to Z of NHS health writing page and in the measurements section on the Numbers, measurements, dates and time page

Updated presentation of examples on the Numbers, measurement, dates and time page

Amended wording of links on design example boxes across the design system

Added guidance and examples of an error summary and an error message working together

Moved service manual from "beta" to "live". Added main, side and in-page navigation and other design changes

Added new page: Backlog of components and patterns

Updated the Inclusive language page with revised guidance on "sex, gender and sexuality", "race, ethnicity, religion and nationality" and "age"

Added new entries for "chronic", "acute", "renal" and "kidney" to the A to Z of NHS health writing

Updated the A to Z of NHS health writing with entries for "pharmacy", "chemist" and "sex assigned or registered at birth"

Made it easier for people to understand negative contractions. Added "can't or cannot" and "don't or do not" to the A to Z of NHS health writing

Amended the guidance on using the number 1 on the Numbers, measurements, dates and time page

Amended index page and side navigation of How to write good questions to improve search results

Updated Cookies page to reflect current cookies practice and let people opt in

Added a Hint text page to components after research showed users did not look for it in text input and other components

Amended wording on Prototyping page and Production code page

Added "Need help?" and "Get in touch" to pages across the site

Amended NHS service standard page and About the NHS service standard page to make it clear that teams working to the GOV.UK service standard must meet all 14 points

Updated section 17 of the service standard with more detail about interoperability standards

Updated Terms and conditions page to make it clear the service manual is covered by the Open Government Licence

Added What's new section with updates and blog pages

Amended Your privacy page to reflect service manual policy and practice