Vikas Thakur / / 11 min readYou can display an aggregate Google star rating on a clinic website without breaching the testimonial rule in section 133 of the National Law, provided the number stands alone. The risk most sites miss is not the visible badge, it is review text still sitting in hidden schema markup or CSS-hidden widget code that a scraper or a regulator can still read.
Vikas Thakur / / 12 min readMost WordPress themes, page builders and review plugins write Review or AggregateRating schema into a clinic page's JSON-LD automatically, often without the site owner knowing it exists. Section 133 of the National Law bans testimonials about a clinical aspect of a regulated health service, and hidden structured data carrying a patient's outcome statement is still a publication. As at 14 September 2026, Google's own guidelines also will not show a rich result for a business's markup about its own reviews, so the schema creates compliance exposure with no ranking benefit to offset it.