Our editorial approach · Updated 7 September 2026
How we prepare treatment guides
What is each guide designed to explain?
Each guide starts with the exact product and its purpose, then covers assessment, important safety questions, practical use, review and follow-up. It distinguishes general education from an individual prescribing decision. Some specific products are pharmacy medicines; others require a prescription. Formulation and supply rules matter, even when two products contain the same ingredient.
The treatment library groups medicines by topic and orders them alphabetically within each topic. Position is not a clinical recommendation, a quality score or a paid ranking. A clinician or pharmacist can explain suitable options, including care that does not involve a medicine.
Which sources do we use?
We prioritise NHS information, NICE guidance, MHRA safety updates, professional regulator guidance and the current patient leaflet or product information. Where a guide discusses a research result, it identifies the study, its population and limitations rather than presenting the finding as an expected individual result.
Source links appear beside relevant sections and in a reference list. The checked date records when the source was consulted for the editorial update. It does not mean a regulator has endorsed our interpretation or that guidance cannot subsequently change. The current leaflet for the supplied product and the healthcare professional responsible for care remain important.
Who has clinically reviewed the pages?
Pick My Pharmacy publishes the information. No independent clinical review is recorded for the current treatment guides, and we do not describe them as medically reviewed. A named review credit should only be added after a suitably qualified professional has completed and documented a review of the relevant content.
How do we handle treatment costs?
The current guides explain what a written service quote should include: assessment, tests, the exact product and quantity, administration or delivery, monitoring, renewal and cancellation. They do not provide verified live checkout totals. An unknown cost is not zero, a missing figure is not evidence of a free service, and an introductory price does not establish the full cost of ongoing care.
A published comparison would need a dated source and like-for-like inclusions. Earlier unsourced illustrative price ranges have been removed from the treatment library. The downloadable treatment index leaves unverified prices empty. NHS eligibility and patient charges are separate from private service fees; a private prescription does not guarantee NHS continuation.
What do commercial relationships change?
Related-site and affiliate links are disclosed where they appear. A commercial relationship does not establish clinical suitability or endorse a provider. Our educational medicine pages do not offer a purchase decision, discount code or guaranteed treatment outcome. See our commercial relationships for the ownership disclosure.
How can information be corrected?
Use the corrections page and include the page address, the wording in question and an authoritative source where available. New safety guidance, a changed licence or a broken reference can require an editorial update. Update dates are changed for substantive revisions, not simply to make a page appear newer.
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