My recent presentation detailing the re-development of the Barnsley Hospital website.

1. WordPress in the Health Sector Michael Kimb Jones July 19th 2009 - WordCamp UK

2. WordPress in the NHS WordPress in large enterprise WordPress for local government WordPress as a CMS

3. About me… Michael Kimb Jones Web Solutions Manager Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

5. About me… Michael Kimb Jones Freelance Work Base6 Design Ltd

7. About me… Michael Kimb Jones Personal Blog: mkjones.co.uk Twitter: @mkjones Base6: base6design.com

9. Issues faced

11. Off-shoot (rebel) sites

13. The road to WordPress

14. WordPress set-up (plugins, users, etc)

17. No central body has been given the responsibility of providing this service

19. 121 different systemsand ideas for content management

20. 121 web development teams and 1000s of users not communicating with each other

22. Not all organisations have a dedicated and skilled team which can support or develop a CMS solution

24. The NHS CMS Predicament... Fixing the problem?? Its clear that the NHS possess quality CMS solutions... DoH NHS Direct NHS Choices All of these sites must use tried and tested systems to publish content on the web

26. A sponsored centralised solution could easily be developed using existing tools and methods that could then be shared out to any organisation wishing to use it

28. Such a tool could even be released as open-source software using a GPL-like licence allowing organisations to re-develop and modify to their specific needs

29. Ultimately this could lead to...

30. 100s of different sites

31. 1000s of users

33. Set-up at Barnsley Hospital BEFORE the re-development

35. Hospital News/Events

36. Patient information

37. Board/Corporate Info

38. Moderated content

39. Internal ‘N3’ site

40. Staff information (news, events)

41. Departmental sub-sites (60 sites)

42. Built in-house (Classic ASP)

44. Re-development project focused on the external website…

45. Old external website… Developed in 2004 as a ‘quick fix’ Static HTML site Used Dreamweaver Templates Lacking in content Vastly out of date These issues led to off-shoot sites www.bhnft.nhs.uk

46. Off-shoot (rebel) sites... Barnsley PGME Barnsley Audiology Barnsley Dietetic and Nutrition Barnsley Healthy Workplace Barnsley ICT Services Nursing in the North North Trent Cancer Network Barnsley Pathology Services Staff Support Services

47. Example off-shoot (rebel) site... www.barnsleyaudiology.nhs.uk

48. Off-shoot (rebel) sites... Barnsley PGME Barnsley Audiology Barnsley Dietetic and Nutrition Barnsley Healthy Workplace To help maintain and streamline development of these sites and after a lengthy search I had actually procured a pretty decent open-source ASP.Net CMS: Umbraco (www.umbraco.org) Barnsley ICT Services Nursing in the North North Trent Cancer Network Barnsley Pathology Services Staff Support Services

50. Simple to use, install, maintain

51. Open-source

52. FREE

54. Using PHP/MySQL… Getting PHP/MySQL in the organisation was one of the greatest challenges I faced as a web developer In the end it came down to money…. In order to build upon the Umbraco CMS I insisted that we would require the Pro (supported) AND some expert training as I had little or no time to learn Umbracoto the required level

56. No funding for paid support/training (Pro version)

57. No knowledge on how or if it could be scaled

58. Long learning curve

60. Losing Umbraco… Passionate developers and a emerging community

61. Losing Umbraco… Umbraco is one of the very few decent FREE ASP.Net open-source CMS’s but in my opinion it can’t compete with the WordPress experience

62. Reasons for re-development Umbraco In-house CMS (Classic ASP) Static HTML Inconsistency in front-end design and back end technology This went on for a number of years before being addressed

63. Reasons for re-development... Core external site was underdeveloped and out of date Relevant Hospital content was stretched over multiple websites The Hospital brand was not strongly reflected on any of the existing sites No clear CMS strategy – ‘anything goes’

65. Self-built CMS tools

66. Static HTML

67. Umbraco

68. External Companies

69. Content was not centralised

70. No standards were in place

72. Project objectives...

74. Design a theme which reflected the Hospital brand

75. Bring all off-shoot sites under the same umbrella

77. Developing the new site...

78. Clearly defined navigation structure... More useful and informative than the previous version

79. Corporate information...

80. Service information...

81. Service information...

82. Service information...

83. Stats on the new site... Moved to the new domainwww.barnsleyhospital.nhs.uk Developed in6 weeks Hostingcosts£200 PA

84. Stats on the new site... 334 Pages 35 Posts 10Plugins WPv2.8 10,000k Monthlyvisitors 5 Active editors

85. Stats on the new site... 100% Positive feedback fromusers AND editors

87. Contact Form 7

88. Fold Page List

89. Role Scoper

90. TinyMCE Advanced

93. Comes with a built-in breadcrumb system

96. Extremely advanced user role management

97. Allows user role management of individual post or pages

98. Ability to give editors their own sub-areas to work on

100. Using Role Scoper…

101. Using Role Scoper…

103. Option to archive or email

106. Reign in more off-shoot sites that are yet to be converted

107. Integrate social apps – Twitter, YouTube

108. Implement blogs for Chief Executive and board members

110. Ended up with a great CMS solution

111. Spend hardly any money

112. Are confident future CMS challenges have been met

113. Never looked back…