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

• developer.nhs.uk: information and tools to help developers create software for health and social care.

• Government Service Design Manual: a pool of guidance and advice about how to design and build digital services from teams across government.