Release Date
Tuesday 16th June, 2026
Summary
Initial production release of the application.
Features
Standardised Header:
- Resource bar with health.qld.gov.au link, Emergency link and Contact us link.
- Dismissible global alert banner, with multiple alert types and per‑tab dismissal that lapses after 24 hours.
- Queensland Government and Gold Coast Health branding, linked to home.
- Global search input.
- Main application navigation menu with drop‑down sub‑menus, driven from the CMS.
- Alternate navigation menus for nominated sections of the site.
- Dedicated mobile menu drawer and mobile search toggle.
Standardised Footer:
- Contact us block with site contact details for phone, fax, email, address and website.
- Queensland Government links.
- Follow us / social channel links.
- Acknowledgement of Country.
- Delivering for Queensland and Queensland Government branding, with copyright notice.
- Bottom banner featuring Magnet® Recognition and Walking together in kindness.
Home page:
- Rotating carousel of promoted content, with pause on hover and manual navigation.
- Hospitals and health centres quick-access bar.
- Audience link widgets for "I'm a patient", "I'm a health professional" and "I want to get involved".
- Our stories news widget.
- Stay in touch newsletter widget.
Global search results page:
- Filterable by content type, with live result counts per type.
- Sortable results.
- Server-side paginated, with result counts shown above and below the results.
- Search again from within the results page.
- Dedicated no-results and service-unavailable states.
Landing pages:
- Search within the landing page content.
- Filter landing page content.
- Server-side paginated.
- Specific pages for the following content types:
- Hospitals & health centres.
- Our services, filterable by service group.
- News.
- Events.
- Research projects.
- Research publications.
- Research grants.
- Research projects and publications presented as sortable, filterable tables, with separate column sets for mobile and desktop.
Templates:
- Custom rendered UI dependent on the content type.
- Informative sub-headers with breadcrumbs, summary text, banner imagery and category pills.
- Alerts able to be displayed against any page.
- Sidebar navigation built from the page hierarchy, plus on-page navigation to move between sections of a page.
- Specific templates for the following content types:
- Pages.
- Service profiles.
- Facility profiles.
- Professional profiles.
- News articles.
- Events.
- Research projects.
- Research publications.
- Facility profiles include contact details, visiting hours, plan your visit with an embedded map, top services and for patients sections.
- Events include registration links and a save to calendar option.
- News articles include key points, hero imagery and categories.
- Pages include a "Last updated" indicator and a "Back to top" action.
- Acknowledgement of Country displayed on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service pages.
Content blocks available to authors:
- Accordions.
- Alerts.
- Card lists and promotional panels.
- Contact us blocks.
- Embedded media, including YouTube and Vimeo.
- Image blocks, galleries and inline thumbnails.
- Highlighted child content.
- Link lists and our services lists.
- Locations blocks and information blocks.
- Dynamic tables.
- Quotes.
- News category feeds.
- Professional profiles.
Online forms:
- Compliments, complaints and suggestions form.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service enquiry form.
- Field-level validation with guided error messages.
- reCAPTCHA protection on submission.
- Automated acknowledgement email to the submitter and notification to the responsible team.
Online document viewer for PDF and Microsoft documents:
- Download option from within the viewer.
- Fallback download prompt where in-browser preview isn't supported.
- Handling for expired documents, with a prompt to search for current content.
Search engine optimisation:
- Per-page meta titles, descriptions, Open Graph and Twitter card data, with author-controlled overrides.
- Canonical URLs, and per-page indexing controls.
- Automatically generated XML sitemap covering all published content types.
- robots.txt, excluding internal routes from indexing.
- Permanent redirects from legacy website URLs, and from non-canonical paths to a page's true URL.
Content management:
- Sanity CMS with the authoring Studio embedded in the site.
- Draft mode preview of unpublished content.
- Publishing a change refreshes only the affected pages, so updates appear without a redeployment.