Editorial policy: sources, checks and corrections

One question per page

Each page is built around one search question and one number: a charge, a saving in pounds or a rule with the form you need. Two pages never answer the same question. The H1 holds the question, the answer box under it carries the figure in under 80 words, and the rest of the page explains who qualifies, how to claim and where the figure came from.

Sources

NHS prescription charges, certificates, exemptions, dental bands, optical vouchers and travel help are taken from nhs.uk, the NHS Business Services Authority or gov.uk. Scottish figures come from NHS inform and gov.scot, Welsh figures from gov.wales and Northern Irish figures from nidirect or the HSC. Clinical facts about a medicine come from NICE, the MHRA or the medicine's summary of product characteristics on the electronic medicines compendium.

Private prices cite the provider's own price page. Weight loss medicine prices come from the GLP Index with the pharmacy's GPhC number on every row. A commercial company is never the source for a clinical fact, and no figure is written from memory.

Checking before publishing

Before a page goes live the editorial team reads each source on the day, records the date, confirms the figure matches the page, confirms every pharmacy named is on the GPhC register, and checks the page against the site's writing and compliance rules. The build itself rejects a page with no sources, no image, a missing check date or a dash in the copy.

Compliance rules on every page

• UK content only. No prices, schemes or sellers from outside the UK.
• The site never claims to sell, prescribe or dispense medicines.
• No reader is told to start, stop or change a dose. Dose questions go to the prescriber or pharmacist.
• Prescription medicines get factual price and access information only, with no promotional language and no urgency.
• The Wegovy pill and Foundayo are not available on the NHS, and no page suggests otherwise.
• No health outcome claims unless quoted from a cited clinical source.
• Every pharmacy named is GPhC registered and the number is shown.
• Links to pharmacies and commercial sites are nofollow. Links to the NHS, NICE, MHRA and GPhC are followed.

Dates

Every page shows the date it was last checked. The same date sits in the page's structured data, so search engines and AI assistants see the same freshness a reader sees. When the content changes, the date changes. Rebuilding the site without a content change does not move a date.

Corrections

Report an error through the contact page with the page address, the figure and the source showing the correct one. Confirmed errors are corrected the same day where possible and the check date moves to the day of the correction. If an error is material, for example a wrong charge, the correction is noted at the foot of the page for 30 days.

Independence

The Dose Club is a non-profit information project. Nobody pays to be listed, moved up a table or taken off one. Links from the price tables open the pharmacy's current offer. Some carry referral tracking and a referral fee may be paid on an order. These links are marked sponsored and nofollow, and they never change the order of a table, which is always sorted by price. The Dose Club does not sell, prescribe or dispense medicines.