How we used the NHS Service Manual and WordPress to build essential products for the NHS during the Covid-19 outbreak.

A presentation at WordPress Birmingham in April 2020 in by Ben Everard

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Building essential products for the NHS with WordPress B E N E V E R A R D

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Patient Webinars

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Patient Webinars • Homegrown website • Built on WordPress.com • Typical public sector issues • Replace existing website • Modest budget • What design approach should we take?

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NHS Digital Service Manual • Companion to GOV.UK service manual • Design system • Accessible • Consistent • Considered • Resources provided

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Figma Templates

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Prebuilt Components

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HTML Components • HTML + Nunjucks • NPM package

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Components ⬇ Blocks ⬇ Gutenberg

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Template Blocks ➡

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Gutenberg • Fast block development • Creation • Testing • Deployment • Maintenance • “Infinite” content possibilities • Empower the client

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Issues • Reusable block “template” would be useful • Editor styling is problematic • Styles bleed into WordPress UI • No way to exclude admin components from site styles • No block context available when modifying responsive image attributes

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Tooling + • Fast block development • No React / JavaScript needed • Modern MVC framework • Similar to Laravel / Symfony • Separate logic and view • Fast website development

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Covid-19

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Thank you