Research & structure.
AI-assisted research and preparation of practitioner information, with sources and review needs considered before publishing.
Selected work / DCL Healthcare
Making a healthcare
directory useful.
Health Village Esher: connecting practitioner information, condition content and patient journeys in a live WordPress implementation.
Live directory, captured 8 October 2026. The implementation continues to evolve.
The problem
Information needs
relationships.
A directory needs more than a collection of biographies. People may start with a condition, a type of practitioner or a specific service. The information needs enough structure to connect those routes.
For Health Village Esher, DCL’s work brings practitioner information, condition pages and patient guides together. The aim is to make the route from a question to relevant information easier to follow.
What DCL contributed.
Research, development and content preparation within the existing WordPress website.
Reusable components.
Directory presentation, practitioner profiles and links between condition information and relevant services.
Patient guides.
Educational pages and guides, including ADHD, menopause and wound care, prepared with human review responsibilities.
Explore the
actual journey.
The current site is the evidence of the implementation. Commercial and patient outcome measurement is a separate task; no uplift is claimed here.
The lesson
we take forward.
Useful platforms depend on clear source information, meaningful relationships and a review process that people can maintain. AI assists the preparation; the structure and the human decisions make it usable.
This approach can inform other directories and information-rich websites, with the requirements and review responsibilities adapted to each organisation.