Our standards

The library today

Those guides sit in 10 sections, supported by a 53-entry plain-English glossary. The least-sourced guide on the site still cites 1 numbered sources, and 98% of all sources are from government bodies, regulators or peer-reviewed research.

Review and dates

Every guide carries three visible dates: when it was published, when it was last reviewed, and when it is next due. No guide is currently past its review date. Cost and waiting-time guides are reviewed more often than the annual minimum, because the underlying figures change more often. The full cycle is set out in our editorial policy.

Who writes and who checks

8 named people contribute to the site. 8 of them are credited as authors and 8 as reviewers. Nobody has reviewed their own work: on every single guide the author and the reviewer are two different named people. You can read each person's role and background on the authors page.

Our reviewers are insurance advisers, not clinicians. That shapes what we will write about: we cover the cost of care, what policies cover, how underwriting and claims work, and how to get access. We do not write about symptoms, diagnosis or treatment, and we point you to the NHS and to condition charities for that.

The checks every guide has to pass

These are not aspirations. They are automated rules, and a guide that fails one of them cannot be published — the site refuses to build. 8 of 9 rules are passing across the whole library right now.

• A direct answer of 40 to 60 words, above the fold
• A named author and a separate named reviewer
• Published, last-reviewed and next-review dates on the page
• At least eight numbered sources, each with a publisher, a title, a date and a working link
• Every internal link pointing to a page that actually exists
• No selling, quote forms or lead capture inside the body of a guide

Where a figure is still missing

If we have not yet confirmed a statistic, a source or someone's qualification, we leave a visible marker in square brackets rather than estimate. It looks unfinished because it is: an honest gap is better than an invented number.

How we are paid for

The Health Guide is published by PremierPMI. We are funded by clearly labelled partner blocks and by the footer, never by anything inside the body of a guide, and no commercial arrangement changes what a guide says. The full arrangement is set out in how we are funded.

Tell us if something is wrong

If a figure looks wrong or out of date, tell us and we will check it against the source. Corrections and how to raise them are covered on our editorial policy and complaints pages. The evidence we rely on, and the order we trust it in, is listed under our sources.