Ready
Mixd

Built with the NHS, for the NHS. Ready Mixd is a feature-rich, out-of-the-box WordPress theme for NHS organisations which takes advantage of the extensive functionality of WordPress and almost 20 years of NHS website design expertise. Ready Mixd is an excellent choice for NHS Trusts looking to create a high quality, public facing website in a cost effective way.

Created to meet the needs of NHS organisations: 

Ready Mixd provides an engaging, mobile friendly, accessible website platform that adheres to the NHS Design System and brings together the latest user research, design and development from across the NHS to make sure it’s user focused.

  • Comprehensive feature set based on user research
  • Configurable design to match your Trust branding
  • WCAG 2.2 accessibility compliance
  • 99.99% uptime SLA
  • Fully hosted and maintained end-to-end cloud solution
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Mixd made the redevelopment of our website incredibly simple.

Helen Fox Head of Communications – Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

Modernise your website with the Ready Mixd platform

Ready Mixd helps NHS communications teams build websites quickly, securely and cost effectively with a modern front-end specifically designed for NHS Trusts.

  • Solution cost and value

    Avoid repeating work that’s already been done by using an established design system that is based on two decades of NHS user research and usability testing.

  • Flexible and customisable

    You can customise the design of your website to match your branding and we offer options for additional customisations to meet your specific needs.

  • WCAG accessibility compliance

    The Ready Mixd baseline has been developed to meet WCAG 2.2 at Level AA and we can optionally provide an accessibility audit and accessibility training.

  • NHS Design System components

    Take advantage of Ready Mixd’s features including flexible page templates and the WordPress Editor that incorporate the NHS Design System components.

Features summary

Ready Mixd consolidates the most commonly requested NHS features into a branded, responsive website solution that can be easily adapted to suit your unique requirements. From content management and progressive enhancement for mobile devices, through to design patterns for common user needs.

  • Services directory
  • Locations directory with optional support for community centres
  • Wards and visiting times directory
  • Consultant/staff directory
  • Patient resources directory
  • News and events
  • Optional NHS Jobs / TRAC integration
  • Site search, filtering and A to Z directories
  • Optional support for easy read content
  • Alert banners, side-wide promotions and related content
  • Content expiry and review dates
  • Cookie Compliance with Cookie Control by CIVIC
  • Social sharing links and links to social channels
  • Secure online forms
  • Freedom of Information and publication scheme

Simple website management:

Empower your content editors to upload content rapidly and get new team members up to speed quickly with personalised training and support from the Mixd team.

  • WordPress CMS:

    WordPress makes it effortless to publish content quickly and easily. The platform’s high adoption rate also means that security issues are quickly detected and rapidly resolved.

  • Premier support:

    For emergency support, you can use our ticket system to reach our team or call and speak directly with an on-call engineer, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

  • Creative design:

    Ready Mixd incorporates our best practice design solutions for specific user-focused tasks and page types. For example, A to Z directories for services, wards and patient resources.

  • Content migration:

    We will work together with you to evaluate and reorganise your website content and can offer assistance with, or lead the content migration to guarantee a smooth transfer.

Enterprise-grade security: 

Our Mixd Managed Hosting platform offers best-in class security that meets the most stringent security requirements for NHS organisations including, security monitoring, DDoS protection, managed WAF, automated patching and vulnerability scans. That’s why Mixd is trusted by the NHS and UK government.

  • WordPress updates:

    Rapid patching addresses potential threats to your website. We alert customers of upcoming updates and will make sure you are on the latest version of WordPress.

  • Managed Firewall:

    Our managed Web Application Firewall (WAF) includes WordPress-specific security rulesets. It inspects web traffic for signs of XSS or SQL injections and automatically responds to emerging threats.

  • DDoS protection:

    Cloudflare’s Global Anycast network absorbs highly distributed attack traffic to keep you online. Origin infrastructure is protected by detecting and dropping attacks at the edge.

  • Monitoring and alerting:

    Our team monitors the platform and your website around the clock and will act on alerts about issues. We will inform you and start investigating if your site is down.

Further resources

Making your service accessible

Advice and useful resources to help you meet government accessibility requirements.

Accessibility regulations – what you need to know.

Help your team understand why they need to meet the website and mobile app accessibility regulations.

Understanding WCAG 2.2

Guidance on meeting accessibility standards and understanding WCAG 2.2