Trust and accuracy

Editorial policy and medical standards

How we write, source, check and correct the guides on wmgmeds.com. People read these pages while making real decisions about their health, so they deserve to know what the information relies on and who stands behind it.

Last reviewed: 4 October 2026. Reviewed at least annually, and whenever a UK regulator or guideline changes something we cover.

Who is behind this content

WMG Meds is the online prescribing service of Westminster Medical Group, a CQC-registered clinical provider at 134 Harley Street, London. Our guides are produced by the WMG team. Every prescription we issue is decided by a GMC-registered doctor, and those doctors review the clinical content on this site as part of an ongoing programme. Their corrections are applied to the live pages.

Each guide lists the sources it relies on and the date its facts were last checked against them.

Our principles

  • The reader comes first. We write for the person reading, not for search rankings or sales.
  • Plain English. Medical terms are explained the first time they appear, and our glossary defines the rest.
  • No promises. We do not say a treatment will cure, regrow or stop hair loss. Responses vary between people, and we say so.
  • The whole picture. Guides cover non-drug options, say when choosing no treatment is reasonable, and say plainly when medication will not help or when we are not the right service.
  • Safety warnings included. Where the MHRA has issued a safety warning about a medicine, the guides that discuss it say so and link to it. Our MHRA safety updates page lists every one in date order.
  • UK context. Licensing, prescribing rules and NHS pathways are described as they apply in the UK. Where we refer to international evidence, we say so.
  • Information, not a diagnosis. Nothing here replaces advice from a clinician who knows your history. For urgent symptoms, contact your GP, NHS 111 or 999.

The rules on medicines information

UK law does not allow prescription-only medicines to be advertised to the public. Our guides are information about conditions and treatments, written to the same standard you would expect from a clinic: balanced, sourced and free of promotional claims. In practice that means:

  • We do not publish prices for prescription-only medicines on our information pages.
  • We do not claim that one prescription medicine works better than another. Where medicines differ in licensing, how they are taken or their safety warnings, we state those facts and leave the choice to you and your doctor.
  • Off-label use is always described as off-label, and compounded preparations are described as unlicensed specials.
  • We do not publish testimonials about prescription medicines.

Sources we rely on

In rough order of preference:

  1. The licensing documents for each medicine: the Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC) and Patient Information Leaflet on the electronic medicines compendium.
  2. MHRA Drug Safety Updates and the BNF.
  3. NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries and guidelines.
  4. NHS patient information.
  5. UK specialist bodies, such as the British Association of Dermatologists.
  6. Peer-reviewed research, where a specific figure or finding is needed.

We do not use forums, influencer content or self-published wellness sites as sources.

How we use technology

We use software tools, including AI, to help research, draft and edit. Nothing is published on the strength of a tool alone. Every clinical claim is checked against the sources cited on the page before it goes live, and pages are approved for publication by the WMG team.

Corrections

If you think something on this site is wrong, out of date or misleading, please tell us at [email protected] with the page address and what you think should change. We will review it and, where a correction is needed, update the page and its checked date.

Conflicts of interest

WMG Meds is a private healthcare provider, and we benefit commercially when patients start treatment with us. That is exactly why these guides include the options we do not offer, say when medication is not the answer, and point to the NHS and other services where they are the better route. Our doctors will decline to prescribe when treatment is not clinically appropriate.