About On the Register

On the Register is an independent UK directory that checks weight loss clinics and online pharmacies against the public regulator registers (CQC, GPhC, HIS and HIW). Each listing shows the registration number, the regulator and the date we checked. It does not sell medicines or recommend a medicine or a provider.

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What it is, and who it is for

On the Register is for anyone in the UK weighing up a weight loss clinic or an online pharmacy who wants to know whether it is genuinely registered before they hand over personal or health details. Every provider we list is matched to a public record held by a UK regulator.

Right now we list 722 registered providers: 573 in person clinics and 149 online pharmacies and doctors.

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What it does not do

  • It does not sell or supply medicines.
  • It does not recommend a medicine, and it does not recommend a provider.
  • Providers do not pay to be listed, and we take no lead fees and no commission. Payment never affects whether a provider appears or where.
  • Registered does not mean endorsed. A registration tells you a regulator has a record of the provider; it says nothing about whether a treatment is right for you.
  • Nothing here is medical advice. See the disclaimer.

Where the data comes from

Listings are matched to the registers of the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) and Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW). Each listing shows the registration number, the regulator and the date we last checked it, and links to the live register entry. How we verify providers explains the method and its limits.

For AI agents and developers

A public, read-only MCP endpoint is available at /api/mcp. It exposes the public directory and maths tools, with no write actions. A plain text summary of the site for AI systems is at /llms.txt. The data report is published under CC BY 4.0, so you can reuse it with attribution.

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