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Clinic websites

A website that books patients, not one that describes your clinic

Most clinic websites are brochures: accurate, professional, and quietly failing to turn visitors into appointments. We build the enquiry path instead, what a visitor does, how fast they can do it, and what happens to the enquiry afterwards. Design serves that, rather than the other way round.

The outcome

The visitors you already have start becoming enquiries

You almost certainly do not have a traffic problem first. Before spending on more visitors, it is worth knowing what share of the ones you already get make contact, and most clinics have never measured it. A site built around the enquiry path converts the traffic you are already paying for, which is the cheapest growth available to you.

2.5sLargest Contentful Paint we build to, on a 4G connectionGoogle's 'good' Core Web Vitals threshold
0.1Layout shift ceiling, so nothing moves under a thumbGoogle's 'good' Core Web Vitals threshold
1 tapFrom any page to making contact, on a phoneBuild standard, every page and every breakpoint

What we actually build

The enquiry path
Every page has one obvious next action, reachable in a tap from a phone held one-handed between patients. No hunting for a number, no contact form buried under a fold.
Treatment pages that answer
What it involves, what it costs, whether it hurts, how long it takes. The questions people actually search for, answered plainly, which is also what earns the page its search position.
Proof where the doubt is
Reviews, credentials and real photography placed at the moment a visitor hesitates, rather than gathered on an About page nobody reaches.
Speed on a bad connection
Built to load fast on 4G in a car park, because that is where a lot of private healthcare gets researched. Slow sites lose enquiries before anyone reads a word.
Wired to the follow-up
Enquiries land in the system that chases them rather than an inbox someone checks on Thursday. This is the part a website project alone never includes.

What it’s worth

Conversion is cheaper than traffic

Doubling the share of visitors who make contact has the same effect as doubling your ad spend, and it keeps working after you stop paying. That is the argument for fixing the site before increasing the budget pointed at it, not that the design is dated, but that the path through it leaks.

Worth being straight about the limits: a website can convert the visitors it already receives. It cannot create visitors, and it cannot follow up an enquiry nobody answers. If those are your actual constraints, a new site alone will disappoint you, and we would rather say so now than after the invoice.

How it’s built

Sold on its own, or as part of the system

You can buy the site by itself, and plenty of clinics do. It is the conversion layer of a larger system, demand pointed at it, automation behind it, and you can complete that later without rebuilding. We agree the measure before the build starts: enquiry rate from existing traffic, not visits and not taste.

  1. Registered to your businessThe numbers, the database, the automations, the website and every call record sit in accounts in your organisation's name.
  2. We hold access, not ownershipOur route in is a permission you grant, and one you can withdraw without anything stopping.
  3. If we stop working togetherThe system keeps running and nothing has to be exported, because none of it was ever somewhere else.

What it takes

A defined build, with a number attached

We start from your current enquiry rate so there is something to judge the result against. You own the site, the domain and the analytics outright. No proprietary page builder that holds the content hostage if you leave.

£1,495 a month. See what is included

What owners ask first

We already had a new website and it did not help. Why is this different?

Because most clinic websites are commissioned as brochures and judged on appearance. If nobody agreed a target enquiry rate before the build, there was no way to tell whether it worked, and no reason it would. We agree that number first, measure it before and after, and design the path rather than the impression.

Do we need a whole new site, or can you fix ours?

Often the second. If the platform is sound and the content is decent, reworking the enquiry path and the treatment pages costs far less than a rebuild and usually moves the number more. We will tell you which you need after the Leak Check, and we have no incentive to oversell it.

Will it look like every other clinic website?

No. Template clinic sites are recognisable at a glance and quietly signal that the practice is much like every other practice. Yours is designed around your treatments, your patients and your prices.

Do you handle the content and photography?

We write the treatment pages with you, because the detail has to be clinically accurate and you are the one who knows it. Photography we would rather arrange properly than fake, real rooms and real staff outperform stock images by a distance, and this audience can tell.

What about GDPR and the advertising rules?

Enquiry forms are built with lawful-basis and consent handled properly, and treatment content is written within the ASA, CQC and GDC rules on what clinics may claim. Getting that wrong is a bigger risk than a slow website.

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We mystery-shop your clinic the way a patient would, by search, phone and web form, then show you the patients you could be winning. Scored on three things: are you found, is the enquiry answered, does anyone chase it.