Doctor branding in Kannur

• A name search audit showing what appears for the doctor's name, including outdated clinic addresses, wrong phone numbers and old hospital affiliations
• A doctor directory or profile page with degrees stated exactly, registration status and registration number (the SMR/NMR number for medical doctors), special interests, languages and OPD timings at each consulting location
• Monthly educational articles in English and Malayalam on the conditions and procedures the doctor handles most
• A LinkedIn profile written for professional colleagues, conferences and academic standing
• Advice on whether the doctor needs an individual Google practitioner listing or should be linked to the hospital's Google Business Profile, so the two do not compete
• Plain, current portraits for directory and profile use, not promotional imagery

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   Discovery. We talk with the doctor about their specialty, the conditions patients most often ask them about, the cases colleagues refer to them and how comfortable they are on camera.
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   Clean-up. We search the doctor's name as a patient in Kannur would, and correct wrong numbers, old addresses and duplicate listings before creating anything new.
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   Content. We agree a monthly list of patient questions and turn them into articles, videos and posts, drafted by us and approved by the doctor.
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   Review. Each month we check what appears for the doctor's name and specialty, profile visits and the enquiries they led to, and adjust the topics.

Kannur has Government Medical College Kannur at Pariyaram, about 25 km north of the city, the District Hospital in town and private hospitals such as Aster MIMS at Chala, along with clinics, labs and dental practices around Thavakkara and Fort Road. The Malabar Cancer Centre is at Thalassery, and the city takes patients from across the district up to the Karnataka border in the eastern hills. Many Kannur families have Gulf connections, and the city also serves patients from the hilly east of the district around Iritty and Taliparamba who often come in by bus; people search in Malayalam and English and trust doctors they hear about through family and community networks.

We run doctor branding by specialty, because multispecialty hospitals and fertility and IVF clinics in Kannur are searched for in different ways:

• Multispecialty hospital marketing in KannurKannur's private hospitals compete with the Government Medical College at Pariyaram and, for planned surgery, with Kozhikode and, for some families in the north of the district, Mangaluru, so each department needs its own page with its consultants and facilities.
• Fertility and IVF clinic marketing in KannurKannur International Airport at Mattannur has direct flights to several Gulf cities, so Gulf-based couples from the district can fly in close to home for consultations and treatment cycles, and a fertility clinic that plans around short leave and explains timelines clearly is easier to choose.
• Cancer centre marketing in KannurFamilies in Kannur often weigh treatment close to home against months of travel for chemotherapy or radiotherapy, so a cancer service in Kannur city should state plainly which treatments, screening and follow-up it offers on site, factually and without any suggestion of cure.
• Dialysis centre marketing in KannurPatients from hill towns such as Iritty and Alakode face long bus journeys for every session, so a Kannur centre that publishes its early-morning or evening shifts and explains how to join its list is easier for families to plan around.

Listing corrections and a proper profile page are usually in place within the first four to six weeks. A recognisable professional presence built on regular content takes many months of consistent publishing, and we do not promise follower numbers or patient counts. Doctor branding usually starts with a set-up project for the audit, listing clean-up and directory pages, followed by a monthly retainer for articles and video. Scope depends on how many doctors are included, how much video is wanted and whether content is needed in both English and Malayalam. Hospitals usually scope the work per department or for the whole consultant team, and fees are never linked to patient numbers. See how our pricing works.

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From Kannur, our office opposite Aster Medcity is about 270 km, six to seven hours by road. The train from Ernakulam takes about six hours and is usually easier than the drive. Patients here often search by landmark, such as Thavakkara, Caltex junction and Thana, so local pages and your Google Business Profile have to use those names.

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One of our consultants sees patients at more than one hospital or clinic. How is that shown?

Each consulting location gets its own entry on the doctor's directory profile, with days, timings and that institution's booking contact, and we keep Google, Practo and each institution's own pages consistent with it. We check with each hospital before listing it, since some have their own rules on how visiting consultants are presented.

Who should pay for doctor branding, the doctor or the hospital?

Usually the hospital or clinic. The NMC's October 2026 advertising guidelines say a doctor should not engage a third party for marketing medical services (clause 8.1(ii)), so we normally work for the institution on its consultants' directory pages and patient education. If a doctor commissions work personally after taking legal advice, we limit it to correcting inaccurate information and patient education, and agree in writing who owns the accounts and content.

Can doctor branding include ads that promote me personally?

No. We do not run paid ads or boosted posts that promote an individual doctor to patients. The NMC's October 2026 advertising guidelines bar doctors from soliciting patients and self-promotion and bar hospital communication from portraying an individual doctor promotionally, and the codes for dentists and AYUSH practitioners also restrict soliciting patients. Hospital pages and ads for a department can list the consultants who work there factually, and educational content can be shared, but check any specific plan with your legal adviser.