Follow up after April 22 Style Council and publish updates

[sarawilcox]

What

Write up of meeting notes and actions taken and share with attendees
Content changes published in service manual

Done when

• notes written up
• action points agreed and allocated
• notes and actions shared on Slack content channel
• notes and actions approved by clinicians
• agree when to publish new standard
• GitHub updated
• Outcomes of Style Council meeting communicated
• Make other minor changes before publishing
• Amendments made to style guide and published

Other actions

• respond Amy at GDS re COVID style guide

Related task

[sarawilcox]

• Content creation principles Iterate standards for creating health content with NHS Transformation Directorate #1740
• Reading age - PIF feedback
• Negative - we already have positive
• Specialty of speciality
• Report on skin symptoms update
• Report on user research - content style guide and inclusive content guide

[sarawilcox]

For future consideration:

May?

• 1 versus one for professional audiences: Numbers, measurements, dates and time nhsuk-service-manual-community-backlog#321 (comment)
• Skin symptoms - add further examples
• Skin symptoms - Pathways user research
• Links - update on analytics
• Choosing content formats - draft in NHS.UK Confluence - see GitHub issue Content formats guidance: main page #1672 1680

Not yet ready:

• Deaf people and deafness/ versus hearing loss - Deafness, loss of hearing, tinnitus and the social model of disability nhsuk-service-manual-community-backlog#211 (comment)
• Do and don't list feedback
• autism - "autistic people" -
• contractions - see comment from Karin

[sarawilcox]

Amendments to style guide - in branch sept-release

• added entry for negative to A to Z
• amended entry for positive in A to Z
• new entry for specialty in A to Z
• new entry for opticians, optometrists, ophthalmologists and orthoptists in the A to Z
• What's new index and updates page