diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/main.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/main.scss
index 29c376245..89b283ddd 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/main.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/main.scss
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ $path: '/static/images/';
 @import 'views/api';
 @import 'views/product-page';
 @import 'views/template';
+@import 'views/notification';
 
 // TODO: break this up
 @import 'app';
diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/views/notification.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/views/notification.scss
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..08def6684
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/views/notification.scss
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+.notification-status {
+
+  @include core-16;
+  color: $secondary-text-colour;
+  margin-top: -$gutter-half;
+
+  &.error {
+
+    color: $error-colour;
+    font-weight: bold;
+
+    a {
+      color: $error-colour;
+    }
+
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/app/templates/partials/notifications/status.html b/app/templates/partials/notifications/status.html
index 481b32446..730eb6954 100644
--- a/app/templates/partials/notifications/status.html
+++ b/app/templates/partials/notifications/status.html
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 <div class="ajax-block-container">
-  <p class='heading-small bottom-gutter'>
-    Sent {% if notification.created_by %}by {{ notification.created_by.name }} {% endif %}
-    on {{ notification.created_at|format_datetime_short }}
+  <p class="notification-status {{ notification.status|format_notification_status_as_field_status }}">
+    {% if notification.status|format_notification_status_as_url %}
+      <a href="{{ notification.status|format_notification_status_as_url }}">
+    {% endif %}
+    {{ notification.status|format_notification_status(
+      notification.template.template_type
+    ) }}
+    {% if notification.status|format_notification_status_as_url %}
+      </a>
+    {% endif %}
   </p>
 </div>
diff --git a/tests/app/main/views/test_notifications.py b/tests/app/main/views/test_notifications.py
index 683ef63c4..d5aceaecd 100644
--- a/tests/app/main/views/test_notifications.py
+++ b/tests/app/main/views/test_notifications.py
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 from freezegun import freeze_time
 import pytest
-from werkzeug.datastructures import MultiDict
 
-from app.main.views.notifications import get_status_arg
 from app.utils import (
     REQUESTED_STATUSES,
     FAILURE_STATUSES,
@@ -14,13 +12,31 @@ from tests.app.test_utils import normalize_spaces
 from tests.conftest import mock_get_notification
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize('notification_status, expected_status', [
+    ('created', 'Sending'),
+    ('sending', 'Sending'),
+    ('delivered', 'Delivered'),
+    ('failed', 'Failed'),
+    ('temporary-failure', 'Phone not accepting messages right now'),
+    ('permanent-failure', 'Phone number doesn’t exist'),
+    ('technical-failure', 'Technical failure'),
+])
 @freeze_time("2016-01-01 11:09:00.061258")
 def test_notification_status_page_shows_details(
     client_request,
-    mock_get_notification,
+    mocker,
     service_one,
     fake_uuid,
+    notification_status,
+    expected_status,
 ):
+
+    _mock_get_notification = mock_get_notification(
+        mocker,
+        fake_uuid,
+        notification_status=notification_status
+    )
+
     page = client_request.get(
         'main.view_notification',
         service_id=service_one['id'],
@@ -29,10 +45,10 @@ def test_notification_status_page_shows_details(
 
     assert page.find('div', {'class': 'sms-message-wrapper'}).text.strip() == 'service one: template content'
     assert normalize_spaces(page.select('.ajax-block-container p')[0].text) == (
-        'Sent by Test User on 1 January at 11:09am'
+        expected_status
     )
 
-    mock_get_notification.assert_called_with(
+    _mock_get_notification.assert_called_with(
         service_one['id'],
         fake_uuid
     )