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Evidence and editorial standards

Health content is easy to write badly and dangerous to get wrong. These are the rules we hold ourselves to — including the things we refuse to say.

How we write health content

Reviewed by qualified clinicians

Health content is reviewed by appropriately qualified members of our clinical team, and the reviewer and review date are shown on the page. Meet the clinical team

Claims stay inside the evidence

Where evidence is strong we say so plainly. Where it is mixed or weak we say that too, rather than rounding it up into a promise.

Limits are stated, not buried

Every tool states what it cannot do. A result is an orientation, never a diagnosis, and never a guarantee of eligibility or outcome.

What we refuse to publish

  • — Claims that a product, program or app diagnoses, treats, cures or reverses a condition.
  • — Invented statistics, fabricated success rates, or numbers we cannot source.
  • — Prices that are not real, or a price implied before it is confirmed and shown to you.
  • — Before/after imagery or testimonials used to imply a typical result.
  • — Urgency or fear manufactured from a health result in order to sell something.
  • — Any suggestion that an online check can replace individual assessment by a professional.

Screening tools we use

Where a page uses an established screening instrument, we present it as published and label it as a screening tool, not a diagnostic test. Scores support reflection and a conversation with a professional; they do not establish a diagnosis by themselves. Tools we author ourselves are labelled as reflective checks and are not presented as validated instruments.

Corrections and review cycle

Content is reviewed periodically and when guidance changes. If you believe something here is inaccurate, tell us and we will review it — corrections are made openly rather than quietly removed.

Site content last reviewed: 2026-07-19

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