What it does
- An assistant that answers which kind of clinician deals with a problem and where to find one, from the site's own dated records only. It does not say what a symptom means, how serious it is or whether a test is needed.
- Emergency information shown first, with 112 before anything else.
- Specialists listed by specialty, with the venues and days they consult.
- Tests and scans by region: MRI, CT, mammography, ultrasound and more.
- A map of every venue, built on OpenStreetMap rather than a commercial maps API.
- Filters by need, region, kind of place and what is open now.
- Sponsored listings labelled as sponsored, with a page explaining how ranking works.
- Installs on a phone's home screen and works offline for pages already visited.
What we built, and why
The rule that shaped healthcare.mt is that it is a navigation layer, never triage. Interpreting symptoms would make it a medical device under EU rules, and getting it wrong would hurt someone, so the assistant routes to a kind of clinician and a place and stops there. Every answer comes from records on the site, with the date they were checked.
The other rule is that the register comes first. A practitioner is matched on their registration number, not their name, because names are spelt differently in every source.