How the comparison works

Provider inclusion

• Only direct seller or provider websites are included in provider rows.
• Aggregators are excluded.
• Inclusion is not an endorsement, approval or recommendation.
• Paying, subscribing or supplying information cannot improve organic order or public evidence.

Default order and sorting

• The table opens by pharmacy name A–Z, with letter-led names before names beginning with numbers or symbols.
• No numbered price rank is shown.
• Visitors may choose to sort any supported column.
• Price ordering and public-profile evidence remain separate.
• Search, treatment and dose selections do not constitute medical advice.

Price evidence

• Prices are dated research observations and can change without notice.
• Price values are collected independently from provider-owned pages. A competitor comparison database or third-party price feed is not used as a price input.
• The canonical master table contains one row for every provider, treatment and dose, with capture time, stock state and evidence status.
• Each public price requires an unambiguous dose and price extracted together on the recorded provider-owned domain.
• The evidence record retains the exact source URL, UTC collection time, HTTP state, collector version and a SHA-256 hash of the retrieved content.
• Reachable-but-unmatched, ambiguous and unavailable pages remain without a public price; old values are not carried forward.
• Each visible amount is the latest retained exact observation from the provider-owned source. Its source and observation date remain available so readers can check the provider page before relying on it.
• Every frontend build validates and compiles the root master CSV; dated daily snapshots are retained for audit.
• Internal capture timestamps and source-review states are retained for audit and correction work.
• Visitors must confirm the current total price, delivery, eligibility, stock and service directly with the provider.

The same validated artifact powers the Mounjaro comparison, its six dose pages, the monthly Mounjaro Price Index, the Wegovy comparison, its dedicated 2.4mg page, and the monthly Wegovy Price Index. The Mounjaro CSV/JSON evidence is generated from the same rows. This prevents a summary statistic from drifting away from its visible evidence.

External review profiles

• Google links remain searches until the exact business identity and Place ID are verified.
• Trustpilot links are domain-discovery links until the exact profile and display entitlement are confirmed.
• Google and Trustpilot ratings, review text, reviewer details, logos and widgets are not copied into the price master.
• Missing or unresolved review profiles are missing evidence, not negative evidence.

GPhC inspection evidence

• Inspection outcomes, dates, report counts and improvement-plan counts come from the official GPhC pharmacy inspections website.
• Report counts cover the reports GPhC publishes for inspections taking place since April 2019; they are not lifetime inspection counts.
• The registered pharmacy name is shown separately because a provider brand may use a different linked dispensing pharmacy.
• “Standards met”, “Standards not all met” and “Not yet inspected” reproduce GPhC outcome labels and are not PharmacyScore scores.
• Every profile links back to the official inspection history and latest published report where available.
• Inspection-report and improvement-plan counts are shown as factual context and do not earn points merely because the number is higher.

CQC, ICO and LegitScript checks

• CQC regulates relevant health and care services in England. CQC registration is not applicable to every dispensing pharmacy or every provider operating elsewhere in the UK.
• A “registered service matched” label requires an exact match between the provider website domain and a website recorded in the current CQC active-locations directory.
• “No exact service match verified” is a neutral evidence state. It does not mean the provider is unregistered, illegal, unsafe or non-compliant; a clinical service may use another legal entity, partner or domain.
• CQC information is used under the Open Government Licence v3.0 and links back to the current official source.
• An ICO registration is shown only after the provider's verified legal entity exactly matches a current entry in the official data-protection fee register.
• An ICO entry records the named controller's fee registration. It is not a clinical, safety, security, service-quality or general legal-compliance approval.
• “ICO registration not verified” is missing evidence, not a claim that the provider is unregistered or non-compliant.
• LegitScript is a private paid certification body, not a regulator.
• A positive LegitScript label requires a current, domain-specific source check. An unavailable or unverified result is not described as “not certified” and does not reduce the score.
• PharmacyScore does not bulk-scrape the LegitScript checker. Current positives require a controlled manual verification or licensed data access.

Official sources: CQC data directory, ICO register and LegitScript certification checker.

PharmacyScore public evidence score

This owner-directed preview score summarises comparable, source-linked public evidence. It is not the planned full Reputation and Visibility Score, and it is not a clinical, prescribing, safety, treatment, legal- compliance or regulator verdict.

A provider receives a normal score only when its GPhC premises record and an official GPhC inspection-site record are linked. The separate trading-name match is an evidence-coverage statement and does not improve the score. Intermediaries and linked pharmacies with a captured GPhC enforcement action currently in force are labelled “Not ranked”.

Current components

• Pharmacy registration evidence — 30 points: linked GPhC premises record and official inspection evidence. The trading-name match is reported separately and does not improve the score.
• Latest published GPhC inspection outcome — 25 points when available: the points reproduce the latest published outcome band; “Not yet inspected” is missing coverage rather than a negative result.
• Current direct-source price evidence — 20 points: the proportion of expected dose observations supported by current exact provider-owned evidence.
• Public profile transparency — 10 points: provider-owned, treatment-source and regulator links. Google and Trustpilot discovery links, ratings and reviews are not scored.
• Exact CQC service relationship — 5 optional points: included only when the current directory contains an exact provider-domain match.
• Current LegitScript certification — 5 optional points: included only after a current domain-specific certification is independently verified.
• Current ICO registration — 5 optional points: included only after an exact match to the provider's verified legal entity. It is a transparency and data-governance signal, not a clinical or compliance approval.

Calculation and safeguards

• The displayed score is earned points divided by currently available points, multiplied by 100 and rounded to the nearest whole number.
• Coverage is the available component weight out of the possible 100 points. High confidence begins at 85% coverage, medium at 70%, and lower coverage is labelled limited.
• Missing or inapplicable optional evidence is excluded from the denominator and lowers coverage; it is not automatically treated as poor performance.
• Inspection and action-plan counts, price level, discounts, offers, subscription status, profile claims, sponsorship and payment cannot improve the score.
• The comparison remains pharmacy name A–Z by default. Score ordering occurs only when a visitor selects that sortable column.
• Google and Trustpilot ratings are excluded until exact identities and the necessary API or display rights are verified.
• Every profile displays the score, coverage, confidence, calculation date, component breakdown, source status and correction route.

This score is an owner-directed public preview. It must not be marketed or monetised as approved until the scoring methodology, source rights, trading-name matching, correction process, bias risks and evidence thresholds have received the independent UK legal and CAP review required by the launch plan.

Corrections and independence

Pharmacies may submit current factual evidence and corrections without subscribing. They cannot buy a preferred order, endorsement or stronger evidence state. Material corrections are reviewed against source evidence.

PharmacyScore is an independent commercial comparison and software platform. It is not a pharmacy, prescriber, regulator, inspection body or clinical-quality rating service.

See the corrections process for the evidence a correction should contain.