NHS Blocks
NHS styled blocks for WordPress as developed by the NHS Leadership Academy based on the NHS Digital Front-end library.
4.5(2 reviews)
·700 active installs·Updated 3 weeks agoAs of April 2026, NHS Blocks is a WordPress nhs plugin with 700 active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 20K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Top alternative: Nightingale Companion.
4.5/52 reviews
700active installs
20K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019
Overview
NHS styled blocks for WordPress using the Gutenberg editor, based on the excellent work from the NHSUK Front-end Library. These blocks mean your WordPress site can offer the latest care cards, site promos and info panels to your users, and that all of this content will be styled to match the NHS branding guidelines.
This plugin is designed principally for use by NHS organizations, but can be used by anybody.
This plugin previously required Gutenberg 7.9.1 (as a standalone plugin) to be installed and active. This requirement
has now been removed and it uses the native Gutenberg that ships with WordPress 5.3 and higher. If you also have the
Gutenberg plugin installed we strongly encourage you to deactivate the Gutenberg plugin as it may cause future conflicts
with the nhsblocks plugin (at…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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Changelog
1.3.24
- Accessibility improvement and JS fix for cards block
Contributors
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