How we rank
Two different things are explained here. The Transparency Score grades how open and verifiable a single venue's information is. Listing order decides how venues are sorted within a search. Neither is for sale, and neither rates clinical quality or safety.
The Transparency Score
Every venue gets a score from 0 to 100, computed from our database each period, never set by hand. It is the sum of four pillars. A high score does not mean a clinic is better at medicine, it means a reader (or an AI citing us) can see clearly what is on offer, at what price, from whom, and how current that information is.
- Pricing transparencyup to 35
- Up to 25 points for the share of a venue's treatments that list a price with a cited source, plus up to 10 for how recently those prices were checked. Prices checked within 60 days earn the full freshness points; older prices earn fewer. A stale or unsourced price earns nothing, we would rather show a gap than a number we cannot stand behind.
- Verificationup to 25
- Zero until a clinic claims its own profile. Once claimed, a venue earns 10 points, plus 3 to 5 more depending on how its identity was verified (a health-registry match or a signed document counts for more than a domain email), plus 10 if a health-registry number is on file. This pillar is why an unclaimed venue can reach at most 75 out of 100. The remaining 25 are earned by proving who you are, never given.
- Completenessup to 25
- A weighted share of the details a considered choice needs: contact and booking, address and mapped location, practitioners and their credentials, equipment, languages, year established, and photos. Credentials and equipment count double, because they are what a patient actually weighs.
- Classifiabilityup to 15
- The share of a venue's listed treatments that map to our standard treatment vocabulary, so one clinic's menu can be compared like for like against another's. A menu written only in in-house names is harder to trust and harder to cite.
The score measures transparency and verifiability, not clinical quality. It is computed from data and is never sold or negotiated.
Example profile
Rank labels (Exemplary, Highly transparent, Well documented, and so on) replace raw numbers on clinic pages. The full numeric breakdown is on each venue's verify page.
The “Physician on staff” mark
Some venues carry a “Physician on staff” mark. It means at least one person on the venue's disclosed team holds a recognised medical degree (such as MBBS, MBChB, or MD) and appears on a public medical register (in the UK, the General Medical Council). We derive it only from credentials a venue publishes, and we grade down when unsure: a “Dr” title alone is never enough, because it can belong to a dentist, naturopath, or PhD rather than a physician. The mark carries the most weight for venues that inject, prescribe, or perform medical procedures, where a doctor is a real safety signal. It reflects verified medical involvement, not a judgement of clinical quality, and it is never for sale.
How venues are ordered
Listings are ordered by data quality: completeness of a venue's profile (treatments, verified pricing, practitioner credentials, equipment), freshness of that data, proximity and relevance to your search, and Google review volume and rating. On pages for treatments that involve injecting, prescribing, or a medical procedure, venues with a disclosed physician on the team are listed first, because a doctor's involvement is a genuine safety signal there. We do not accept payment to change this order.
What sponsorship buys
Partner venues can pay for placement (a featured position in clearly marked slots on city and category pages) and for richer presentation, such as professional photography. Every paid placement carries a visible “Sponsored” label. If a card doesn't carry the label, its position wasn't paid for.
What sponsorship never buys
Rankings, evidence grades, regulatory notes, prices, or reviews. Evidence grades reflect published clinical research for the longevity or wellness claim, graded by the same rubric for every venue, paying or not. The moment rankings are for sale, a directory like this one stops being worth citing, so they never will be.