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Freedom of information requests

FOI 2786 2023/24

Public facing websites

Published 18 August 2023

Public facing websites

Questions

Public facing NHS Trust website

  1. What CMS/software and version does your public facing NHS Trust website use?
  2. Is your public facing NHS Trust website hosted and supported by a third party IT partner or on-premise? If a third party, when does your current contract expire?
  3. When was your public facing NHS Trust website launched?
  4. What are your separate budgets for hosting/supporting and development for your public facing NHS Trust website?
  5. Which teams, department or individual is responsible for maintaining your public facing NHS Trust website?

Digital accessibility

  1. When was your public facing NHS Trust website last audited for accessibility compliance?
  2. Which teams, department or individual is responsible for maintaining accessibility compliance across your public facing websites?

Website content

  1. Do you work with external marketing/communications suppliers to create content for your public facing services?
  2. When was the last time you conducted a content audit on your website to remove outdated content?

Response

Public facing NHS Trust website

  1. The main website uses the latest version of Sitekit CMS. We are currently maintaining a number of legacy websites while we migrate their content to the main site. These legacy sites are managed using WordPress
  2. By a thrid party. The current hosting agreement for the main website expires on the 31 May 2023.
  3. The main site was launched in November 2021
  4. There is not specific budget assigned for this. Payments are raised on an ad hoc basic according to need
  5. The Web Team. Part of the Communications Department

Digital accessibility

  1. The website was checked manually during the build, new features are checked as they're added to the site, so there is no single audit date since launch
  2. The Web Team, part of the Communications Department

Website content

  1. Not currently for the Trust's website
  2. This is an ongoing piece of work as we continue to migrate content from our legacy websites