🆕 New features
- Add new Task list component
- Add new Complete multiple tasks pattern
- Add a resources page to the community and contribution section
🔧 Maintenance
- Rename and reorganise pattern subsection headings in the design system
🆕 New features
- Update accessibility guidance to say that WCAG 2.2 includes WCAG 2.1 and teams are now monitored to WCAG 2.2
🆕 New features
- Add entries on Down's syndrome, fit note and period products to the A to Z of NHS health writing
- Add guidance for heading classes
– Add classes to style table captions similar to headings, detailed in Nunjucks macro option
captionClasses
🔧 Maintenance
- Update page template examples to make the default example size
land inside the grid system - Update page template Nunjucks options, to remove
outerContentblock - Make our guidance on age clearer
- Update entries on fetus, microgram and NHS in the A to Z
- Update links guidance to recommend avoiding "see"
- Update content section on capitalisation to mention geographical names
- Update service manual team page and email address
- Update page about the NHS service standard
- Delete outdated references to NHSX
- Update Nunjucks macro options for date input component, adding values for day, month and year
- Update type scale to increase font size of
mandlheadings, updates font size overrides to align with new sizes - Improve spacing around the back links and breadcrumbs components
- Update guidance on back links to recommend putting them top of page
🆕 New features
- Add new warning button to buttons component
🔧 Maintenance
- Update table component guidance with information about responsive tables
- Fix alignment between header, footer and main content in page template examples
- Update Nunjucks macro options for primaryLinks in header component
- Improve fieldset component guidance to better explain their use and importance for accessibility
- Improve tabs component guidance to explain how they should work for accessibility
- Improve guidance on contrast and accessibility on colour page
- Fix missing black colour, added to colour palette on colour page
- Fix display and layout of some tables
- Remove 'experimental' tag from tabs and character count components
- Reformat links section in accessibility guidance to make content clearer
🆕 New features
- Add guidance for using headings with captions
🔧 Maintenance
- Update guidance on links from "opens in new window" to "opens in new tab"
- Update colours used in code examples to improve contrast
- Update breadcrumb Nunjucks macro options descriptions
- Update radio with hint example Nunjucks code
- Replace links used in examples with hash (#)
- Add guidance for error summary focus on page load
- Remove duplicate links in design system side navigation
- Fix API catalogue link in service standard point 17
🆕 New features
- Add page on new accessibility requirements: WCAG 2.2
- Add sections on making sure your service meets WCAG 2.2 for: Product and delivery and Design, Development and Testing
- Add list of changes to meet new accessibility requirements to design system index page
- Update components and styles for WCAG 2.2:
- Back link: guidance on positioning and keeping data the user has entered
- Breadcrumbs: guidance on positioning
- Buttons: guidance on minimum target size
- Error message: guidance on not clearing data the user has entered
- Footer: guidance on placing help links
- Header: guidance on placing help links and not hiding content that has a focus applied
- Select: guidance on avoiding click and drag
- Summary list: guidance on action link target size and keeping data the user has entered
- Tag: guidance on avoiding click and drag
- Focus state: guidance on not hiding content that has a focus applied
- Icons: guidance on minimum target size
🔧 Maintenance
- Update site map
🔧 Maintenance
- Re add side nav to "How to write good questions for forms"
🔧 Maintenance
- Remove "Messaging patients" section in Content guide
🆕 New features
- Add new page "Feedback or share insights" in Community and contribution section
- Update "Help us improve this guidance" section at bottom of pages across site
🔧 Maintenance
- Update COVID-19 entries in the A to Z of NHS health writing
- Delete entry for NHS COVID Pass
- Fix styling of numbered headings in Content guide
- Rename "Content style guide" asset file to "Content guide"
- Add side nav link for "Standard for creating health content" to "Numbers, measurements, dates and time" page
- Right align copyright statement in footer component
- Fix target size issue on A to Z navigation page
- Comment out outdated table of components on Backlog of components page
- Update site map
- Remove redundant back link in content guide
- Remove embedded link from contents list design example
- Fix link in section on link text in accessibility guidance
🆕 New features
- Introduce WCAG 2.2 in accessibility guidance and on design system home page
- Update NHS accessibility checklist to WCAG 2.2
- Add new British Sign Language (BSL) quality assurance standard
- Add section on AI and digital healthcare technologies to standard 8 in the NHS service standard
- Add section about the AI and Digital Regulations Service (AIDRS) to section 16 of the NHS service standard
- Add links to the AIDRS from section 11 of the NHS service standard
- Add mention of convulsions to entry on "seizure or fit" in A to Z of NHS health writing
- Add section on copyright to footer component in design system
🔧 Maintenance
- Rename "Content style guide" "Content guide"
- Clarify content about font on typography page in the design system
- Explain about headings below Do and Don't list and warning callout components in design system
- Amend entry for "NHS 111 online" in the A to Z of NHS health writing
- Update the standard for creating health content to refer to WCAG 2.2
- Update service standard 5 to refer to WCAG 2.2
- Change example of radio items with hints
- Remove link on start page pattern
- Reword care card component
- Update site map
- Update service manual footer
🆕 New features
- Update header and footer components
- Add prefix and suffix options to text input components
🔧 Maintenance
- Update link in health literacy toolkit in content style guide
- Change "heritage" to "background" in guidance on ethnicity, religion and nationality in content style guide
🆕 New features
- Add new card components variants, replacing older cards
- Add updated design principles PDF
- Add and amend entries in content style guide after June Style Council meeting - see What's new for detail
🔧 Maintenance
- Fix typos in previous release
- Add "Next" to bottom of first page in How to write good questions for froms
- Update spacing around design principle 10
- Update site map with Character count and Tabs
🔧 Fixes
- Import and initialise the Error Summary JavaScript, and set focusOnPageLoad to false, so the component example works as expected NHS.UK frontend issue #766
🔧 Maintenance
- Fix design principle 10 in mobile view
🆕 New features
- Add 2 new experimental components to design system: character count and tabs
- Add new sustainability principle to design principles
- Add new section on widgets and overlays to accessibility guidance
- Add new section to accessibility guidance for teams working to short deadlines
🔧 Maintenance
- Update breadcrumbs styling
- Add links to accessibility checklist from accessibility guidance
- Add links to NHS Constitution from information about the NHS service standard and service standard 5
- Add links to NHS Digital's API policies and best practice from service standard 17
- Remove mention of GDS empathy lab - now closed
- Make minor updates to guidance on meeting accessibility requirements
- Duplicate accessibility guidance for testers on giving users time to act on devs and designers pages
- Change "NHS Digital" to "NHS England"
🆕 New features
- Add example for back links rendered as buttons
- Add double click prevention example to buttons component
- Add entries to content style guide A to Z after October Style Council meeting
- Link to NHS data standards directory from point 17 of NHS service standard
🔧 Maintenance
- Update service manual team page
- Update info on future guidance in images component
- Install latest version of NHS.UK frontend (6.2.0)
🔧 Maintenance
- Update example phone number to standard
🔧 Maintenance
- Adding IDs to A-Z cards to fix the link reference
- Phrasing change on Expander - When not to use
🆕 New features
- Add new entries for negative, specialty and opticians to the A to Z of NHS health writing
- Add maximum length to section on alt text in skin symptoms guidance
🔧 Maintenance
- Amend entry for positive in the A to Z of NHS health writing
- Fix link in coronavirus entry in the A to Z
- Update and fix links in point 17 of the NHS service standard
- Update timescales on service manual team page
🔧 Maintenance
- Remove two resources from "Read more about this" section on point 17 of the NHS service standard page
🔧 Maintenance
- Fixed a broken link in the mobile nav on the inclusive content page
🆕 New features
- Add a new entry for integrated care boards (ICBs), in the A to Z of NHS health content
- Add 2 new blog posts to What's new
🔧 Maintenance
- Remove link from the standard for creating health content and add a sentence
- Remove a date from the design principles
- Replace a link on review date pattern (Reassure users that a page is up to date)
- Remove a link and fix another in skin symptoms guidance
🔧 Maintenance
- Make minor tweaks to new standard for creating health content based on feedback
- Remove old blog posts from point 1 in NHS service standard and add recent posts
🆕 New features
- Add a new standard for creating health content
🔧 Maintenance
- Add a link to Hemingway Editor from the How we write page
- Remove a broken link from the Numbers, measurements, dates and time page
- Update service manual team page and site map
- Remove feedback survey from home page, footer and several other pages
🔧 Maintenance
- Add 301 redirects from old to new service standards content location (Fixes #1749)
🆕 New features
- Expand the NHS service standard section to include a new technology section
- Add 2 new pages about NHS login and the Personal Demographics Service (PDS)
- Add links from NHS service standard 11 to the NHS login and PDS pages
- Add new posts by Tero Väänänen and Kathryn Grace to the blog posts page
- Link to Tero Väänänen's blog post from service standard points 1, 2 and 6
🔧 Maintenance
- Update site map
🆕 New features
- Turn inclusive language page into inclusive content section
- Iterate skin symptoms guidance in inclusive content section, adding information about long descriptions
- Mention long descriptions in images component and accessibility guidance
- Update wording about Open Document Formats (with a link) in guidance on PDFs and other non-HTML documents
- Update A to Z of NHS health writing to reflect changes to inclusive content and skin symptoms pages
🔧 Maintenance
- Update entry for NHSX and fix inconsistencies in A to Z of NHS health writing
- Remove mentions of Behind the Headlines from the A to Z
- Update site map
- Added
browserslistconfig topackage.jsonfor Webpack build to fully support Internet Explorer 11
🔧 Maintenance
- Remove beta banner from NHS service standard pages
- Small content tweaks on Formatting and punctuation page
- Update service manual team page
🆕 New features
- Add new section on aligning text on formatting and punctuation page
- Add new section on text alignment on typography page
🆕 New features
- Add new entry for "booster" to the A to Z of NHS health writing
- Add word "only" to guidance on avoiding linking to PDFs on Links page
🔧 Maintenance
- Removed NHSUK ESLint config as a dependency and replaced with AirBnB base configuration
- Added Volta setting to the
package.jsonfile so anyone with Volta installed will automatically use a version of Node that is known to be compatible with the current version of the service manual
🆕 New features
- Update closed captions section in accessibility guidance
- Add more detail about colour contrast and accessibility in design system
- Add sentence about not using "none of the above" to the checkboxes component "none" option
- Link to Involving people and communities in digital services (NHSX's website) from NHS service standards 1 and 5
🔧 Fixes
- Update link to WC3 WCAG2.1 on Links page
- Update link to modulus 11 algorithm information in the pattern for asking users for their NHS number
- Update service manual team page
🔧 Fixes
- Update service manual team page. Remove old members and add new member.
- Bug fix on A to Z of NHS health writing page #1677
🔧 Fixes
- Update service manual team page. Remove old members and add new member.
- Added "Would you like to contribute to this guidance?" section at the bottom of the accessibility posters page.
🆕 New features
- Add new page for downloading accessibility posters
🔧 Fixes
- Fix arrow in A to Z of NHS health writing
🆕 New features
- Rework care card component as a pattern to help users decide when and where to get care
- Update links to point to the new pattern from the colour page and from 5 components: action link, card, expander, inset text, warning callout
- Amend the care cards component page to direct people to the new pattern and add a review date component page to direct people to the pattern for reassuring users that a page is up to date
- Update links to point to the new pattern from 2 content style guide pages: the A to Z of NHS health writing and the Formatting and punctuation page
- Add the word "reuse" alongside "build" and "buy" in the guidance on NHS service standard 11
🔧 Fixes
- Update service manual team page. Remove old members.
- Update site map with new pattern
- Improve search so it no longer treats word after hyphen as a new search, e.g.
x-ranow returnsx-rayinstead ofRadios - Install latest version of NHS.UK frontend (6.0.1)
🔧 Fixes
- Remove static
aria-labelattribute on header menu toggle. Replace with descriptivearia-expanded="false"on page load. - Update to make alt-text more findable in the search field
- Update service manual team page. Remove old members and add new members
- Install latest version of NHS.UK frontend (5.2.1)
🆕 New features
- Add start page pattern and guidance
🔧 Fixes
- Change case of word "or" in "none" option for checkboxes
🆕 New features
- Add to checkboxes component - an option for "none" example and guidance
- Add satisfaction survey to design system, style, components and content style guide hub pages
- Update layout of the service manual team page
🆕 New features
- Update Inclusive language page section on ethnicity, religion and nationality
- Add entries for "BAME", "Black or black", "BME", "ethnic minorities", "ethnicity", "race" and "White or white" to the A to Z of NHS health writing
- Add note about "Black or black" and "White or white" to the section on capitalisation on the Formatting and punctuation page
- Add entry for "positive" to the A to Z of NHS health writing
🔧 Fixes
- Install latest version of NHS.UK frontend (5.2.0)
- Update dependencies to the latest versions
- Update team members
🆕 New features
- Add link to week notes from the NHS additional language support discovery
- Add new entries on NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI) and NHSX to the A to Z of NHS health writing
- Add 2 more bullet points to the guidance on image captions in the image component
🔧 Fixes
- Use the correct service header example on the Header components page
- Update team members
- Update dependencies to the latest versions
🔧 Fixes
- Update links on the header component examples to match the current NHS website and NHS digital service manual website
- Update dependencies to the latest versions
- Update team members
🔧 Fixes
- Updates to team members
🆕 New features
- Add Qualtrics feedback survey to footer, home page and Get in touch
🔧 Fixes
- Fix typo in NHS service standard point 5
- Update dependencies to the latest versions
🆕 New features
- Make minor changes to the NHS service standard, including explaining what we mean by inclusion and accessibility
- Bring all guidance on captions together in the images component and add more detail
🔧 Fixes
- Update dependencies to the latest versions
🔧 Fixes
- Add real error message example to date input component
- Update dependencies to the latest versions
🆕 New features
- Display Nunjucks macro options with the Nunjucks code examples
🔧 Fixes
- Update dependencies to the latest versions
🆕 New content
- Update accessibility guidance - change length of alt-text for images
- Add new section on making content about skin symptoms more inclusive to content style guide
- Add new entries in the A to Z of NHS health writing for: black skin, brown skin, redness, skin colour changes, white skin, GP online services and ID
- Update entries for immunisation, jab, vaccination, and vaccine
- Add guidance on writing about skin colour on the Inclusive language page
- Add link to blog post on community and contribution in What's new
🔧 Fixes
- Fix broken health literacy link on the service standard pages Issue 1136
🔧 Fixes
- Update content style guide example and research insight callout boxes
- Fix typo in video and other multimedia content accessibility guidance
- Update dependencies to the latest versions
🔧 Fixes
- Fix incorrect example for Lead text typography
- Update dependencies to the latest versions
🔧 Fixes
- Fix broken link in What's new updates
🆕 New content
- Update guidance on making video and other multimedia content accessible
🔧 Fixes
- Use the latest version of NHS.UK frontend (v5.1.0)
- Update dependencies to the latest versions
🆕 New features
- Restructure the design examples folder to allow for Nunjucks macro options
🆕 New content
- Replace Mini-hub pattern example image with full page code snippet
🔧 Fixes
- Update the error summary example to match the NHS.UK frontend example and only include 1 error
- Give the design examples HTML, Nunjucks and Copy functionality titles for Adobe analytics
- Update dependencies to the latest versions
🆕 New features
- Add new entry to A to Z of NHS health writing for GP system supplier names and patient-facing services
- Update service manual team page with new members
🔧 Fixes
- Fix GitHub issue number for PDF page in content style guide
🆕 New features
- Update A to Z of NHS health writing with a link to new GOV.UK coronavirus (COVID-19) A to Z
- Replace Google Analytics with Adobe Analytics and update the cookie policy to include the new cookies Issue 1101
🔧 Fixes
- Add contribution links to pages across the service manual Issue 1000
- Find and replace all non-closing
<p>tags - Issue 1092 - Fix HTML validation issues with the code examples and OGL footer logo
- Remove duplicate IE11 polyfills
- Update dependencies to the latest versions
🔧 Fixes
- Improve content about publishing an accessibility statement
- Make sure "Updated" date is correct on the product and delivery pages in accessibility guidance
- Update the NHS digital service manual team members
🔧 Fixes
- Remove role and focusable attributes from the logo
🆕 New features
- Remove the review date component and replace it with the "Reassure users that a page is up to date" pattern.
🔧 Fixes
- Use maincontent as the ID for the main element across the NHS digital service manual and examples for consistency and to match the Skip link anchor (nhsuk/nhsuk-frontend#716)
- Use the latest version of NHS.UK frontend (v5.0.0)
- Update dependencies to the latest versions
🆕 New features
- Add service manual team page
🔧 Fixes
- Update
site-map.njk'community' to 'community and contribution'
🔧 Fixes
- Update
app.jsredirect URL for/community
🆕 New features
- Change name of the contribution section to community and contribution
🔧 Fixes
- Replace broken Chrome link for accessibility page web developer tool
🆕 New features
- Add page template guidance to the design system
- Update guidance on PDFs and other non-HTML documents
- Add explanation and more examples to the section on hyphens and dashes
🔧 Fixes
- Remove readability tools page and explain that we do not recommend them on our health literacy page
- Remove 2 broken links from health literacy page
- Amend the site map page to bring it into line with the site map entry in the style guide
- Remove negative contraction (can't) on Page not found page
- Remove all code related to the readability tool page
🔧 Fixes
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
- Remove the
pattern="[0-9]*"attribute from NHS number examples to allow for spaces - Update code example for the font weight normal override class
🆕 New features
- Install NHS.UK frontend v4.1.0
- Add guidance for asking for whole numbers using the text input component
- Update code examples with inputmode numeric for the ask users for their NHS number pattern and date input component
🔧 Fixes
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
🆕 New features
- Add more examples to the section on capitalisation in the content style guide
- Add a new entry for "site map" in the A to Z of NHS health writing
🔧 Fixes
- Update the guidance on dates in the content style guide
- Update the entry for the NHS App in the A to Z of NHS health writing
- Add more links between the A to Z of NHS health writing and the rest of the content style guide
🆕 New features
- Added new entries for GUM clinic and vial to the A to Z of NHS health writing
🔧 Fixes
- Add quotation marks to contractions section in style guide to make it clearer
- Update typography list to use real examples
- Remove readability tool page with broken link to SMOG calculator while we consider it further
🆕 New features
- Add link to the new 10 ways the NHS digital service manual can help you blog post
- Add new and updated guidance on using bold, contractions in URLs and page titles, full stops and quotation marks to the content style guide
- Add new entry on vial to the A to Z of NHS health writing
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
🔧 Fixes
- Remove full stops from the card component and other cards to align with content style guide
🔧 Fixes
- Fix an issue with the CSP not executing inline scripts
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
🔧 Fixes
- Use Helmet to help secure app by setting various HTTP headers
- Create a new route to act as a short URL for the contribution survey
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
🔧 Fixes
- Amend typo in NHS service standard point 9
- Hide caption in table about time in content style guide
- Fix typo on the Skip links component page Issue 330
- Update contact panel to make it clearer which links are for code changes
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
🆕 New features
- Add card component
- Add tag component
- Add responsive table component
- Add
nhsuk-link--no-visited-statestyle for links in typography - Update warning callout guidance with a section on making headings accessible
🆕 New features
- Create new route to act short URL to join our public Slack instance
- Use the Slack link across the website
🔧 Fixes
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
🔧 Fixes
- Fix incorrect icon file name for chevron left on the Icons guidance page
- Replace "telephone" entry in A to Z with a "phone" entry and link from "telephone and telephone numbers" to "phone and phone numbers"
- Replace "telephone" with "phone" in forms and text input guidance
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
🆕 New content
- Remove experimental tag from organisational header and summary list component
- Add prototype kit how to guides link to the prototyping page
🔧 Fixes
- Fix design example link focus style
- Fix duplicated content under service user on A to Z of NHS health writing
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
🆕 New content
- Add accessibility posters
- Add new 'Get in touch' page
- Add entry for NHS Test and Trace to A to Z of NHS health writing
- Remove feedback survey
🔧 Fixes
- Remove the splunk logging function code to prevent console errors within the cookie banner
- Use DOMContentLoaded event instead of load for performance benefits with the cookie banner
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
- Add building great digital services during a crisis blog post
🔧 Fixes
- Prevent the autocomplete from being initialised twice
- Add
role="main"to<main>container for consistency and accessibility fixes - Update package dependencies to latest versions
🔧 Fixes
- Updated first paragraph for "Organisational header"
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
- Use
noopenerandnoreferreron links that open in a new window - Defer the cookie consent to stop the script render blocking the page
🆕 New content
- Update guidance and add more examples for the error message component (Community backlog Issue 222)
🔧 Fixes
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
🆕 New content
- Update community backlog page
- Add guidance for the
<main>wrapper vertical spacing modifier classes (Community backlog Issue 221) - Update footer guidance
🔧 Fixes
- Fix A to Z page pattern example
🆕 New features
- Add conditional reveal for radios and checkboxes (Community backlog Issue 173)
🆕 New content
- Update community backlog page
🔧 Fixes
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
🆕 New content
- Add new video of our public show and tell on YouTube
- Update home page What's new promo box to point to latest blog post
- Add new entries for calories, Deaf people, hearing loss, death and trimesters to A to Z of NHS health writing
- Add a reference from "disease" to "condition" in the A to Z of NHS health writing
- Add a new section on calories to the Numbers, measurements, dates and time page
- Mention social model of disability in the section on disabilities and conditions on the Inclusive language page
- Change memorable number example under telephone numbers in the A to Z of NHS writing and explain that we use "call" or "phone"
- Remove "straight away" from our guidance on hyphens
- Standardise links in the A to Z of NHS health writing
🔧 Fixes
- Install latest version of NHS.UK frontend (3.0.4)
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
- Reword entry for coronavirus (COVID-19) in A to Z of NHS health writing to make it clearer
🆕 New content
- Add recent Radio 4 interview to content style guide
- Update Patterns index page with new wording after testing
- Add feedback survey to help improve the service manual
- Update cookie policy with information about other organisations' cookies
- Update Your privacy page with information about other organisations' cookies and a section on social media
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
🔧 Fixes
- Add error summary to NHS number pattern with errors example
- Fix design example spacing
- Change "services" to "a service" for Google Analytics in the cookie-consent.js
- Use the no cookie version of YouTube video embedding
- Remove unused cookie (ARRAffinity) from the cookie policy page as we no longer set this cookie
🆕 New content
- Add new entry in A to Z of NHS health writing for "GP"
- Add explanation about using months up to 2 years on Inclusive language page
- Add new guidance on telephone numbers to A to Z of NHS health writing, based on GOV.UK guidance
- Add new guidance and examples of an error summary and an error message working together (Community backlog Issue 189)
- Add latest show and tell and recent Radio 4 interview to What's new section
🔧 Fixes
- Update entry in A to Z of NHS health writing for "doctor"
- Improve guidance on ordinal numbers on Numbers, measurements, dates and time page
- Remove reference to the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors on content style guide hub page and include contact details instead
- Use the latest version of the NHS.UK frontend library (3.0.3)
🆕 New content
- Update guidance on "sex" and "intersex" on the Inclusive language page.
- Update What's new section with latest changes.
🔧 Fixes
- Fix design example 'Open in new window' link accessibility issue (Issue 548)
🔧 Fixes
- Remove old CSS/JS caching techniques as this is now covered on the server side
- Clarify guidance on temperature, and edit examples on numbers and measurements page
- Fix a typo on the Warning callout page
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
🔧 Fixes
- Add temporary meta data to verify domain with Google
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
🔧 Fixes
- use the new open graph images for each section
🆕 New features
- The NHS digital service manual is now a live service (https://service-manual.nhs.uk)
- Add main navigation to the service manual
- Add side navigation to the different sections in the service manual
- Add in-page navigation to longer pages in the service manual
🆕 New content
- Add a hint text page to components after user research showed users did not look for it under text input or other components
- Add new page: Backlog of components and patterns
- Add new section: "What's new" with updates and blog pages
- Update the Inclusive language page with revised guidance on "sex, gender and sexuality", "race, ethnicity, religion and nationality" and "age"
- Add new entries for "chronic", "acute", "renal" and "kidney" to the A to Z of NHS health writing
- Update the A to Z of NHS health writing with entries on "pharmacy", "chemist" and "sex assigned or registered at birth"
- Make it easier for people to understand negative contractions. Add "can't or cannot" and "don't or do not" to the A to Z of NHS health writing
- Amend the guidance on using the number 1 on the Numbers, measurements, dates and time page
- Amend index page and side navigation of How to write good questions to improve search results
- Add 'Need help?' or 'Get in touch' details to pages across the site
- Update Cookies page to reflect current cookies practice and let people opt in
- Update Terms and conditions page to make it clear the service manual is covered by the Open Government Licence
- Amend Your privacy page to reflect service manual policy and practice
🔧 Fixes
- Remove the /service-manual prefix
- Use the new domain name in the sitemap and configuration files
- Add the cookie policy and declaration pages and logic
- Self host the cookie banner and change content to remove Hotjar/Adobe
- Update the XML sitemap
- Only use Google Analytics on the production environment
- Update the 404 page not found content and add a variable to disable search
🆕 New features
- Display the parent page in search results
🔧 Fixes
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
🆕 New features
- Add entries for "pharmacy", "chemist" and "sex assigned or registered at birth" to the A to Z of NHS health writing
🔧 Fixes
- Add more detail about interoperability standards to section 17 of NHS service standard
- Amend guidance on using the number 1 in Numbers, measurements, dates and time after December Style Council meeting
- Update inclusive language page, especially the section on sex, gender and sexuality
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
🔧 Fixes
- Correct formatting of full sentence list style on formatting and punctuation page
- Remove link and clarify direction to research in details page
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
- Update frontend library and prototyping tools breadcrumb
🆕 New features
- Add search functionality to the service manual
🆕 New content
- NHS service standard
🔧 Fixes
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
🔧 Fixes
- Add missing Details component JavaScript polyfill
- Use https on all external links and fix broken link on the test your questions page
- Remove the unnecessary type attribute from JavaScript resources
- Fix broken link to the PDF page on sitemap page
- Update accessibility footer link to accessibility statement
- Make filter question image decorative using alt null
🔧 Fixes
- Made it clear in PDF guidance that PDFs can be used for a permanent record
- Added an additional bullet point on PDFs being used as a permanent record.
- Refactor CSS and HTML to clean up the code base and make the spacing more consistent
🔧 Fixes
- Update PDF and links pages and related content
🔧 Fixes
- clarify start of project questions for product and delivery in Accessibility guidance
- fix incorrect url on summary list component to github issue
- use latest version of the nhsuk-frontend (3.0.2)
- Consistent HTML spacing and indenting to make the code easier to read
- Remove unnecessary spacing override classes
- Create 2 new page layouts (full width and two thirds) to reduce code duplication
- Add Sass styles to constrain widths of elements when using the full width layout
- cache bust CSS and JavaScript assets
- remove duplicate import for the radios nunjucks macro
🆕 New content
- Guidance on how to write good questions in forms
- Improvements to the Header component page with guidance on the new organisational header
- New page: Understanding focus state styles
- Summary list component
- Asking users for their NHS number pattern
- NHS number entry in A to Z of NHS health writing
- Improved guidance for colour and typography
🔧 Fixes
- Capitalise GOV.UK 'Design System'
- Tidy up the colours and typography pages with more examples and improve page design
- Improve the guidance around use of the Frutiger font
- Remove the hint text page and include guidance for hint text on individual component pages
- Use the latest version of NHS.UK frontend (3.0.0) including new focus styles
- Fix the Nunjucks snippets for the A to Z and Mini-hub patterns
🆕 New content
- Add contribution criteria for community contribution
🔧 Fixes
- Update the guidance around usage of Do & Don't lists on their own
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
🆕 New content
- Add new entry to A to Z of NHS health writing for "PMS (premenstrual syndrome)"
🔧 Fixes
- Amend entries for GP surgery and seizure or fit in the A to Z of NHS health writing
- Delete mention of wizard behind the curtain from accessibility guidance
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
- Update the Slack workspace URL
🔧 Fixes
- Remove the old basic cookie consent solution
- Implement the new cookie consent solution
- Remove feedback survey from the sitemap
🔧 Fixes
- Remove redundant Adobe Analytics code
- Anonymize IP addresses in Google Analytics
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
- Remove feedback survey from the footer
- Use the correct class names for the typography size modifiers
🔧 Fixes
- Remove the search JavaScript until the search functionality is complete
🔧 Fixes
- Use the latest version of the NHS.UK frontend library (v2.3.1)
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
🆕 New content
- Add new entries to A to Z of NHS health writing, including: "baby", "foetus", "drowsy", "sleepy", "preconception care", "seizure or fit"
🔧 Fixes
- Add mini-hub at top of Inclusive language page and change "baby" in section on Age
- Update entry for summary care record in A to Z of NHS health writing
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
🆕 New content
- Add more guidance for content designers to the care card page
- Add "red book" and inclusive language terms to A to Z of NHS health writing
🔧 Fixes
- Update inclusive language page in content style guide, especially guidance on sex, gender and sexuality
- Change "measurement" to "measurements" in Numbers, measurements, dates and time - and update links to this page
- Improve wording about ordinal numbers on Numbers, measurements, dates and time
🆕 New content
- Add entries to A to Z of NHS health writing: health record and related terms
🔧 Fixes
- Remove duplicate entry from the XML sitemap
- Accessibility: Updated home link aria label, it now reads as "NHS digital service manual homepage"
- Fix a few minor content formatting issues, like apostrophes
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
🆕 New content
- Add new page in content style guide with updated guidance on numbers, measurement, dates and time
- Add new numbers terms to A to Z of health writing
🔧 Fixes
- Update the guidance for how we use the microgram symbol
- Update the guidance for how we write concisely with example
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
🔧 Fixes
- Use the latest version of the NHS.UK frontend library (v2.3.0)
- Use the latest NHS website Open Graph assets and metadata
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
- Accessibility guidance pages grammar and content updates
- Add 'homeless' to the A-Z of NHS health writing
- Add external links to the links and PDF guidance pages
🔧 Fixes
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
- Remove page section from the Open Graph meta title
- Fix broken link to the privacy policy on the sitemap page
- Update the link to the contribution criteria
🆕 New content
- Accessibility guidance pages
🔧 Fixes
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
🆕 New content
- New content in the A to Z of NHS health writing, including cervical screening, people, patients and service users
- Publish new patterns for A to Z and Mini-hub
- Accessibility statement
🔧 Fixes
- Update package dependencies to latest versions
- Prevent the code snippets from escaping the container on mobile (Issue 190)
- Tidy up the core application structure and configuration (Issue 196)
- Swap the white background around on the homepage and tidy up the HTML markup
- Update to version 2.2.0 of the NHS.UK frontend library - with favicon changes in layout file
🔧 Fixes
- Prevent the CSS and JavaScript files being cached for too long with cache busting
- Update package dependencies to the latest versions
🆕 New content
- Example of a transactional header with service name on the header component page
- Publish new styles: Spacing
🔧 Fixes
- Update package dependencies including latest version (2.1.0) of the NHS.UK frontend
- Remove checked attribute from the radio button example
- Fix the page width of the radio component page
- Fix broken email anchor link
- Fixed hyphens in modifier class names on typography page
🆕 New content
- Add more terms to the A to Z of NHS health writing after March Style Council meeting, plus other content updates
🔧 Fixes
- Rename Grid page - now Layout - and iterate content
🆕 New features
- Publish new contribution pages for proposing and working on new features with contribution criteria
🔧 Fixes
- Use the correct paths in the component code snippets for importing Nunjucks macros
- Add links to discuss each of the component on the GitHub service manual backlog
- Use latest version of the NHS.UK frontend library (2.0.0)
- Amend typo on the inset text component page
🔧 Fixes
- Add more terms to A to Z of NHS health writing after January Style Council meeting
- Update temperature info on Formatting and punctuation page and link to A to Z
🆕 New features
- Publish new components; Back link, Contents list, Details, Expander, Images, Pagination, Review date, Skip link and Table
- Draft first release of the service standard pages
🔧 Fixes
- Updated the guidance on using icons and buttons user research
- Fix broken links across the manual such as breadcrumb
- Fix spelling mistakes across the manual such as sufar to sugar
- Change
/content-style-guide/page URL to/content/ - Report the correct http status code on 404 page not found pages
- Reduce the file size of the design principles PDF
- Use the corrext Sass colour variable names and colour hex codes
- Fix broken breadcrumb Home link on error message component page
🎉 Official release of the NHS digital service manual