--- title: "How we compare UK online pharmacies | Sanara Health" description: "How Sanara Health compares regulated UK online clinics: GPhC checks, dated fees, what money cannot buy, and when we send you to Pick My Pharmacy instead." url: "https://www.sanarahealth.co.uk/method/" date_modified: "2026-09-23" source: "Sanara Health" licence: "Quote with attribution and a link to the url above." --- Methodology # How we compare UK online pharmacies Sanara is a desk-researched comparison, not a clinic. This page is the method behind every table, guide and partner link — so a reader (or an answer engine) can see what we checked, when, and what we refuse to invent. **Quick answer:** We checked dispensing pharmacies against the GPhC register when they were added. Registration can change; [verify it again](https://www.sanarahealth.co.uk/verify-provider/) before paying. We compare service fees, delivery and ratings — never prescription-only medicines by name. The latest service recheck was 24 September 2026. Each site build withholds details older than 45 days. Commission cannot buy a rank. ## What is a “desk assessment” here? We have not been your patient and we have not sat in the partner pharmacy’s consultation. A desk assessment means: we read the clinic’s public pages, the GPhC register, CQC statements where they apply, and NHS pages for the condition, then we write what a careful non-clinician can verify. If a number is not on a primary source with a capture date, we do not publish it. ## How a clinic gets onto the comparison 1. We check the dispensing pharmacy on the GPhC register when adding it; readers should confirm its current entry on the live register. 2. Online prescribing services in England should hold CQC registration — we note it when we have checked it. 3. We record consultation fees, delivery fees, delivery speed and plan details from the clinic’s own site, with a capture date. We link to the provider source where a current figure is shown and withhold details older than 45 days at each site build. 4. We do not invent a score when we cannot verify it. A missing rating says nothing about the clinic’s safety; we link to its live review page where possible. We currently compare 15 clinics. Adding a clinic is an editorial decision, not a paid listing. ## What money cannot buy Partner links are marked * and use `rel="sponsored"`. They never change sort order, star copy, or whether a clinic appears. If we ever sell a labelled placement, it will sit outside ranked tables. Details: [how we make money](https://www.sanarahealth.co.uk/how-we-make-money/). Pharmacies that want to send us product URLs use [the partner programme](https://www.sanarahealth.co.uk/partners/). ## When we point you somewhere else Sanara is for *online* clinic comparison. If you need a high-street pharmacy, NHS Pharmacy First, or opening hours in a named city, that is[Pick My Pharmacy](https://pickmypharmacy.co.uk/) — a related GPhC-register directory, not a sponsored ranking on this page. ## Who should skip Sanara Skip this site if you need emergency care (999), urgent advice (NHS 111), an examination, or a guaranteed prescription. We will not pretend an online questionnaire replaces those routes. You can also visit a provider directly. Our current links do not earn affiliate commission. ## Corrections If a fee, registration number or sentence is wrong, email hello@elitedigitalagency.io. Material mistakes go on the public [corrections log](https://www.sanarahealth.co.uk/corrections/) with a date. We do not silently rewrite history. ## How we treat affiliate products Nameable Pharmacy, general-sale, device and supplement items can appear on[/products](https://www.sanarahealth.co.uk/products/). Each row needs a confirmed destination URL and a legal class. Prescription-only medicines never get a product page. Adding a product is a data change, not a ranking change. Pharmacies apply at [/partners](https://www.sanarahealth.co.uk/partners/). ## How we treat local pharmacies Sanara is not a premises directory. When a reader needs a high-street counter, Pharmacy First or opening hours in a named city, we send them to[Pick My Pharmacy](https://pickmypharmacy.co.uk/). That link is editorial, not a paid placement, and it does not carry `rel="sponsored"`. ## What we will not publish Invented wait times, invented prices, named prescription-only medicines, guaranteed approval, or a negative claim built from a missing data field. “We have not checked this yet” is publishable. A fake number is a defect. City × treatment combinatorial pages are kept out of the index because they were thin — we would rather have fewer URLs than a helpful-content problem. ## How a pharmacy becomes a partner A GPhC-registered pharmacy applies at [/partners](https://www.sanarahealth.co.uk/partners/). We check the register, refuse named prescription-only advertising, and agree a commercial path (Awin, another network, or a direct CPA deal). Approval never moves a clinic up a comparison table. Destination URLs must be confirmed before we activate a referral. A comparison listing does not imply a partnership; approval and commercial terms must be confirmed first. ## When to contact a provider directly Skip them if you would rather type the pharmacy’s address yourself — you pay the same. Skip them if you need NHS 111, a GP examination, or Pharmacy First at a high-street counter. Skip any click that would send you to an unregistered seller. Sanara is the comparison layer; the pharmacy is the seller and the clinician. That split is the whole method.