Websites & patient experience · Practice guide

Give each clinic a dependable location page

Illustrative situation

An accurate address is the beginning of a useful location page. Patients may also need the entrance, reception contact, opening arrangements and a route to discuss access needs. Ask the local team to confirm the facts and name the person who can request corrections. Repeated details elsewhere on the site should agree with that location page.

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What this means for your practice

Create an agreed source of information for each location and use it consistently. The local team should own corrections while central publishing controls presentation.

An example to discuss with your team

Plan a fictional first visit using only the location page.

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A practical example

For example, a practice inside a shared building may use a different public entrance from the map pin. The local team can provide the practical explanation, while your supplier checks maps and linked pages. Ask someone unfamiliar with the branch to plan a visit from the finished information. A good result gives a first-time visitor enough confidence to arrive without having to phone from the wrong doorway.

Check whether repeated address details are copied into printed packs or email signatures. Those materials may need a coordinated update too. The location page can be your agreed public reference, but staff should know where other active copies exist when a practical fact changes.

Make this improvement work

Create one checked set of facts for each location: the correct contact route, services offered and practical arrival information. Give local staff a straightforward way to report changes and central editors a clear publishing process. Ask an unfamiliar reader to plan a fictional first visit and note which answers they cannot find. Verify the facts behind those gaps rather than filling them with generic assumptions. Check any repeated address or contact blocks elsewhere on the site. A location page is dependable when the local team can confirm what is published and knows how to correct it before visitors encounter conflicting instructions.

How to check the result

Count conflicting location facts found during review.

Turn reading into a next step

Your action checklist

Work through these checks with your team or supplier. Tick the ones you have resolved and leave unknowns open.

Checks to discuss

Record what you know, what is still missing and the answer you need from your team or supplier.

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Further reading

These sources provide background for the topic. The practice examples and checklist are illustrative planning suggestions from Kay & Co.

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