# Please review some draft HSDS documentation!

**URL:** <https://forum.openreferral.org/t/please-review-some-draft-hsds-documentation/867>\
**Category:** Technical\
**Created:** [August 27, 2026, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/please-review-some-draft-hsds-documentation/867 "2026-08-27T14:21:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![mrshll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@mrshll](https://forum.openreferral.org/u/mrshll)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2026, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/please-review-some-draft-hsds-documentation/867/1 "2026-08-27T14:21:37Z")

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Hey folks,

We’re working on drafting some HSDS Guidance at the moment, taking steer from our documentation backlog.

- [Documentation backlog](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tszuthH-_xq1vmjOQbUsroGf8R-wScFu6bYhEs9h4eI/edit?gid=1976665603#gid=1976665603)

I’ve done a first draft of a How-To: “How to Use the HSDS Profile Wizard to Generate and Maintain a HSDS Profile”, which I’d really love your feedback on (@oughnic and @MikeThacker-iStandUK might be particularly interested in this).

- [How To Use the HSDS Profile Wizard to Generate and Maintain a HSDS Profile #draft](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q_1ZEVJ0tbBjVW9hKfTswwyS0xzDKfIvX7VGcPFM6bA/edit?tab=t.rkapl1pw16wx)

This link should be publically viewable, with everyone being able to add comments. Please have at it! In the meantime, I’ll be working on some parallel guidance around creating HSDS Profiles which is designed to sit alongside this. My ideal scenario is to release the two pieces together, so that we have broad guidance on what it means to create and govern a Profile alongside a technical how-to for using a particular tool (the HSDS Profile Wizard).

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**Author:** ![mrshll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@mrshll](https://forum.openreferral.org/u/mrshll)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/please-review-some-draft-hsds-documentation/867/2 "2026-09-16T10:19:36Z")

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Hi all,

I’ve been chewing away at the documentation and have staged a PR to add some documentation to the guidance site.

- [specification/600](https://github.com/openreferral/specification/pull/600)

I’ve done a build of the docs with the following articles:

- [Creating Profiles](https://docs.openreferral.org/en/mm-add-draft-guidance/hsds/using_profiles.html)
- [HSDS Profile Cookbook](https://docs.openreferral.org/en/mm-add-draft-guidance/guidance/hsds-profile-cookbook.html)
- [How to use the HSDS Profile Wizard to Generate and Maintain a Profile](https://docs.openreferral.org/en/mm-add-draft-guidance/guidance/using-hsds-profile-wizard.html)
- [How to Validate Compliance with HSDS](https://docs.openreferral.org/en/mm-add-draft-guidance/guidance/validating-compliance.html)

I’m very keen for feedback on these.