Health and Care Digital Guide
This is an experimental service: there may be errors, inconsistencies or inaccuracies. This guide does not currently provide official policy or guidance, please refer to original sources for now.
This guide is designed to help everyone involved in building and delivering digital services in health and care.
Right now, this guide mostly signposts to standards and guidance hosted elsewhere. Over time, we hope this guide evolves into a useful and practical resource for delivery teams.
We welcome contributions from everyone. You can do this by submitting a pull request via Github, or via your browser by editing these pages on github.com.
Topics
Service delivery
Design
Branding
Clinical
Technology
User research
Content
Data
Identity
Security and information governance
Performance
nhs.uk and gov.uk domains
People and skills
Commercial
Governance, approvals and assurance
Quick guides
Developing a new website
Developing a mobile app
Getting approval
Prototyping NHS.UK services
Developing a service that deals with patient data
Get support
- Join the health and care Slack community (open to multiple nhs.uk and nhs.net domains) or request an invite.
Other resources
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developer.nhs.uk: information and tools to help developers create software for health and social care.
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Government Service Design Manual: a pool of guidance and advice about how to design and build digital services from teams across government.