Contribute
The NHS prototype kit is a community project supported by the NHS service manual team. Anyone can help make it better.
Why contribute to the kit
- Help keep the kit up-to-date as an accessible and open way to make HTML prototypes of NHS services.
- Be part of an active and supportive community that will help you learn and develop your skills with the kit.
- We will credit you in our update notes and other supporting information, unless you tell us not to.
- If you're employed by NHS England, you can use examples of contributing to the kit as part of your performance reviews – talk to your line manager about how to include it in your objectives.
How you can contribute to the kit
There are many ways to contribute. You do not have to be an expert in coding.
You can:
- add or improve content for people using the kit
- do quality assurance or accessibility testing of new features or guidance
- fix bugs or build new features
- improve the contribution process
Add or improve content for people using the kit
You can help improve the content for this website and the pages that people view when they download and install the kit.
This includes:
- making the guidance easy to understand and use
- writing in line with the NHS content guide (including standardising terms for the style guide for the kit in GitHub)
Existing things we want to do for guidance are labelled content on our project board in GitHub.
Do quality assurance or accessibility testing
You can make sure that the code in our kit is robust and accessible by:
- running automated and manual tests against WCAG 2.2 AA specifications
- helping us set up pipelines for automated testing in GitHub
Accessibility issues are labelled accessibility on our project board.
Fix bugs or build new features
Known bugs that we need to fix are labelled bug on our project board.
Ideas for features are labelled type: enhancement 💡.
We also label bugs or features by the type of code skills needed: JavaScript, Nunjucks or SASS/CSS .
Improve the contribution process
We want to make the process of contributing as easy and as accessible as possible. Existing things we want to do to improve the contribution process are labelled contribution process on the project board.
Get started with a contribution
You can:
The team and wider community usually review new issues at least once a week and will add comments about what will happen next.