What is medical website design?↓
Medical website design is the planning, writing, design and development of a website for a clinic, practitioner or healthcare organisation. It helps patients find accurate information, understand a service, choose the right practitioner and reach the approved booking or referral pathway while accounting for Australian healthcare advertising, privacy and professional-title requirements.
What makes a medical website AHPRA compliant?↓
The website must avoid false or misleading claims, clinical testimonials used in advertising, unreasonable expectations of treatment benefit, pressure towards unnecessary treatment and offers without clear terms. Practitioner titles and qualifications must be accurate. Cosmetic and therapeutic-goods content may carry additional requirements. LUNA builds around current guidance and records the review, while the clinic approves its services and clinical accuracy before publication.
How does LUNA review medical website copy and SEO for advertising risk?↓
LUNA uses multiple review layers. The marketing-copy scan flags guarantees, unsupported superlatives, urgency, outcome certainty, risk-minimising wording, testimonial use and other higher-risk advertising language. The SEO scan reviews the target query alongside titles, metadata, headings, internal anchors, schema and on-page trigger terms so search optimisation does not quietly introduce a problematic claim. Flagged wording is rewritten, supported or removed, and practitioner details and clinical facts go back to the clinic for approval. These checks help surface risk but do not replace clinical verification, current regulator guidance or legal advice.
Can we show patient testimonials on our clinic website?↓
LUNA leaves clinical testimonials out by default. AHPRA's guidelines prohibit using testimonials about the clinical aspects of a regulated health service in advertising. Comments about purely non-clinical matters can be treated differently, but the line is easy to blur on a clinic-controlled website. Trust is better built through accurate practitioner profiles, useful service information and a clear patient experience. Read the
clinic website compliance guide for practical checks.
Can a medical website use before-and-after photos?↓
Clinical images can be misleading or create unreasonable expectations, and higher-risk cosmetic procedures carry additional advertising requirements. LUNA does not use before-and-after galleries as the default sales device. If a clinic wants to publish clinical imagery, it needs a separate review for that service, genuine consent and honest context. This is general information, not legal advice.
How much does medical website design cost in Australia?↓
Every LUNA medical website is quoted after discovery. Scope changes with the number of practitioners, services and locations, the content required, the booking system, migration work and the level of specialty review. The clinic receives a fixed written scope and quote before work begins rather than a generic public package.
How long does it take to build a medical practice website?↓
Timing depends on the page count, content readiness, practitioner approvals, booking access, migration and review rounds. A focused single-practice website is different from a multi-practitioner or multi-location build. The written project plan identifies those dependencies and sets the working timeline before the build starts.
Can you rebuild our website without losing our Google rankings?↓
A careful migration can reduce risk, but no provider can guarantee rankings will not move. LUNA inventories valuable URLs, keeps them where practical, maps necessary redirects and checks internal links, metadata, canonical tags, analytics and indexation at launch. The recommendation depends on what the current website already earns.
Do you write treatment and practitioner pages?↓
LUNA can write patient-friendly drafts for service, treatment, practitioner, location and new-patient pages when content is included in scope. Public claims and advertising language are reviewed before publication, and the clinic approves practitioner details, service information and clinical accuracy.
Can patients book appointments online?↓
Yes, where the clinic's software provides a supported link, embed or integration pathway. LUNA can work with systems such as Cliniko, Halaxy, Power Diary, Nookal and PracSuite, depending on the options available in the clinic's account. Appointment types, instructions, forms and data flow are reviewed before a connection is promised. For phone coverage, see the
medical AI receptionist.
How should a medical website handle patient privacy?↓
Health information is sensitive information under Australian privacy law. Public website forms should collect only what the next administrative step requires, explain why the information is being collected and direct clinical information into the clinic's approved system. The privacy notice, form fields, recipients and retention pathway should be reviewed as part of the website scope.
Should a medical website meet accessibility standards?↓
Accessibility is part of patient access. LUNA considers readable content, contrast, navigation, keyboard use, form labels, focus states, errors, tap targets and mobile behaviour during design and testing. WCAG 2.1 AA is used as the working Australian Government benchmark, with any additional requirements recorded in the scope.
Is local SEO included in a medical website build?↓
The technical and structural foundations are included in scope: crawlable service and location pages, metadata, schema, internal links, mobile performance, analytics and a clean Google Business Profile pathway. Ongoing content, local authority work and ranking improvement continue through the separate
medical SEO service.
Do you build dental and allied-health websites too?↓
Yes. LUNA designs websites for medical clinics, dentists, physiotherapists, psychologists, podiatrists, dietitians, specialists, surgeons and multidisciplinary allied-health practices across Australia. Dental practices can also review the dedicated
website design for dentists page.
Can you improve our existing clinic website instead of replacing it?↓
Yes. LUNA can add missing service pages, replace risky copy, improve practitioner profiles, connect a supported booking path, repair the mobile experience or strengthen local-search foundations on the site you already have. The first review separates what is worth keeping from what genuinely needs to change.