Circle Healthcare Group
- 54 private hospitals across the UK
- 2.1 million patient visits annually
- Private and national healthcare coverage
- 6,500+ specialist consultants and 9,800+ staff
Connecting Patients to Care
- The Circle Health homepage connects patients with treatments, hospitals, and specialists.
- The platform also provides Healthy Living blogs (Health Matters) authored by Circle Health’s 6,500+ specialists, supporting healthier lifestyles while engaging patients with the group’s services.
- Healthcare acquisitions drove requirements for an enhanced web presence and integration of newly acquired assets into the existing platform.
- Increased scale and demand required a significant redesign of the existing site.
Streamlining Healthcare Discovery
- Evolved a legacy platform into a modular Sitecore Helix architecture and upgraded to Sitecore 10, improving reuse, maintainability, and architectural separation.
- Contributed to the transition to containerised deployment using Docker.
- Implemented the site through a reusable component architecture, in C# and .Net, to support consistency, maintainability, and faster delivery.
- Implemented A/B testing across the site to support data-informed optimisation of components and user journeys.
- Collaborated with front-end engineers using Vue to deliver interactive components and support rich user experiences.
- Developed dynamic components using Sitecore Content Search (Solr), microservices and Azure AI Search to support intelligent search term completion.
- Delivered a complex migration of 1,500+ blog articles and 6,500+ consultant profiles across 54 hospitals into new component designs, preserving complex object relationships.
- Tackled complex performance challenges while navigating the demands of a constantly evolving online environment.
- Supported Agile Scrum delivery through technical planning, authoring Jira work items, and producing Confluence documentation to help coordinate evolving requirements.
