Private care must feel familiar
Patients choosing to pay for services still want the continuity of doctors and premises they recognise - the site had to reinforce that, not undermine it.
Thriving Clinics: private healthcare that feels local - with booking built in.
Thriving Clinics brings together trusted GP practices to offer high-quality private care - starting with a weight-loss service delivered by doctors patients already know. FatFish designed and built the public website at thrivinggp.co.uk and integrated Cliniko online booking so enquiries, free chats and consultations can be arranged without sending people off to a separate system.
Thriving Clinics
Site & Cliniko
Cheshire
Partner GP practices
3
Locations across Sandbach and Alsager
24/7
Online booking via embedded Cliniko
Trusted
Local GP practices patients recognise
Team
GP, health coach and specialist support
The Client
Private care from GPs patients already trust.
Thriving Clinics is a partnership of established local GP practices offering complementary private services alongside NHS care. The founding team - practising doctors who know their communities - wanted a digital front door that reflected the same compassion and clinical rigour as the surgery, not a generic private-health brochure.
The first service is a structured weight-loss programme combining GLP-1 medication management, health coaching and ongoing monitoring - delivered through sites including Ashfields Primary Care Centre in Sandbach and locations in Alsager. Patients can book a free introductory chat before committing to a pathway. Visit Thriving Clinics.
The Challenge
Launch a credible private brand - with clinical booking at the centre.
Booking cannot be an afterthought
Every "Book a free chat" or consultation CTA needed to connect to real availability across practitioners and locations - without a clunky hand-off to another domain.
Room for more services later
Weight loss is the launch offer, but the information architecture and integrations needed to support additional private pathways as the network expands.
What we delivered
A complete public site - plus Cliniko where it matters.
FatFish handled the full website build: structure, design implementation, content surfaces and the technical integration with Cliniko - the practice management platform Thriving Clinics uses for scheduling and patient records.
- Responsive marketing pages for services, locations and team
- Embedded Cliniko online booking on key conversion pages
- Consistent CTAs for free chats and paid consultations
- Foundation ready for additional private services over time
Marketing site
Clear service narrative, location pages, team profiles and trust signals - mobile-first and fast to scan.
Cliniko embed
Online booking embedded in the site so patients select service, practitioner and slot without leaving Thriving Clinics.
Location routing
Sandbach and Alsager sites surfaced consistently - including coming-soon locations as the network rolls out.
Patient CTAs
"Book a free chat" and consultation flows wired through the same booking experience sitewide.
Our Approach
Website and booking as one product surface.
For a GP-led private launch, the website is not separate from operations - it is how patients enter the service. We treated Cliniko integration as a first-class requirement, not a footer link added at the end.
Start with the patient journey
We mapped how someone discovers Thriving Clinics, understands the weight-loss offer, finds their nearest site and books - before writing a line of front-end code.
Design for clinical credibility
Visual tone, copy hierarchy and photography direction emphasise experienced GPs and coordinated care - not a discount telehealth startup.
Integrate Cliniko properly
Rather than linking out to a generic Cliniko URL, we embedded the booking widget so the experience stays on-brand and patients complete the flow in context.
Ship something the team can run
Bookings and services are straightforward for the Thriving Clinics team to update - with booking configuration managed in Cliniko where it belongs.
Cliniko integration
Booking that stays on brand and in sync.
Cliniko provides Thriving Clinics with practice management, scheduling and online bookings. We embedded Cliniko's booking experience directly into the website - the same pattern recommended in Cliniko's own guidance - so patients never feel they have left the clinic they chose.
01
Service pages
Patients learn how GLP-1 treatment, coaching and monitoring fit together - and why trusted local GPs are delivering it.
02
Location & clinician
Appointment types, practitioners and sites configured in Cliniko surface through the embedded booking widget.
03
Embedded widget
Patients pick a slot and enter details without leaving thrivinggp.co.uk - new records created or matched in Cliniko.
04
Practice team
Bookings land in the practice calendar; the team continues the pathway in Cliniko with the full clinical context.
Who it helps
Built for patients and the practice team.
A clear path from curiosity to appointment.
Service information, location details and booking live in one coherent experience - including mobile-friendly scheduling at any time of day.
A brand they are proud to stand behind.
The site reflects the quality and continuity of established practices - not a disconnected private label.
Fewer phone calls for routine booking.
Online bookings flow into Cliniko automatically, freeing the team for conversations that need a human voice.
Structured intake before the first chat.
Cliniko captures the details needed to match patients to the right appointment type and practitioner from the start.
Outcomes
A launch-ready site - with booking patients actually use.
Livepublic site
thrivinggp.co.uk launched as the digital home for Thriving Clinics' private services.
EmbeddedCliniko booking
Patients book free chats and consultations without leaving the website experience.
Multi-siteready
Location pages and booking config structured for Sandbach, Alsager and future openings.
Expandableplatform
Information architecture ready for additional private pathways beyond weight loss.
“FatFish understood what we were trying to build from the first conversation - a private service that still feels like the GP practice our patients already trust. They delivered a polished site and embedded Cliniko booking so people can arrange a free chat without leaving the page. The integration just works - and the team kept clinical workflow at the centre throughout.”
Dr Andrew Wilson
Founding Director · Thriving Clinics
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