How this site is made
This page exists because you should not have to guess where health information came from. It covers who produces Later Spring, how each kind of page is made, what has been checked and what has not.
Who publishes this
Later Spring Directory is an independent publisher. It is not a clinic, not a medical provider, and not affiliated with any professional society, health system or manufacturer. Nobody pays to be listed, nobody pays for placement, and there is no advertising on the site.
Where the directory data comes from
The 7,390 practitioner listings are compiled from two publicly accessible professional registers: the Menopause Society practitioner directory and the British Menopause Society register of recognised specialists. We index the factual fields each practitioner published about their own practice — name, credentials, address, phone, website, declared areas of expertise, payment types and telehealth availability.
We add no ratings, reviews or scores of our own, and we do not reproduce editorial content from either source. Fields such as areas of expertise are self-declared by the practitioner and are not verified by us. Data was last refreshed on .
How the data reports are made
Every figure in the data reports is counted directly from the listings above by code, not estimated or quoted from elsewhere. Numbers shown on the site are computed at build time rather than typed in, so a figure on one page cannot drift out of step with the same figure on another. Each report states what it can and cannot measure.
How the guides are written
The guides are drafted with AI assistance and edited by a human before publication. We think you are entitled to know that, so we say it here rather than leaving it implied.
They deliberately cover the process of getting care — how to prepare for an appointment, how to verify a licence, what the credentials mean, how telehealth licensing works. They deliberately do not give clinical guidance on whether you personally should take a particular treatment. That distinction is intentional: it is the part we can stand behind without a clinician on staff.
What has not been clinically reviewed
No page on this site has yet been reviewed by a named clinician. Where a page carries a reviewer, their name and credentials appear on it. Where no reviewer is named, none has reviewed it, and the page says so. We would rather show an empty slot than imply a medical sign-off that has not happened.
Reviews
Anyone can write about a practitioner listed here. We confirm the email address the review was written from, and nothing more — we have no way to check that someone was a patient, so we do not claim to have checked. Every review says so where it appears.
There is no star rating and there will not be one. An average out of five on a clinician measures how long the wait was and how warm the manner felt, not whether the care was right, and a single number is what gets quoted back out of context. We show counts against three questions a patient can actually answer.
What a practitioner can do about a review
They can reply to it publicly, under their own name, and they can report it to us. They cannot have a review taken down because they disagree with it, and there is nowhere on this site to ask. Removing unfavourable reviews while keeping favourable ones is prohibited by the US Federal Trade Commission’s 2024 rule on consumer reviews, and it would make everything left worthless anyway.
When we remove a review
Only for one of these, and we decide it, not the practitioner:
- — It identifies someone’s health information, including the writer’s own.
- — It makes a factual allegation the practitioner shows to be untrue.
- — It contains contact details, an address, or anything identifying a third party.
- — It describes an appointment that demonstrably could not have happened.
- — The person who wrote it asks us to withdraw it.
“It is unfair”, “it is bad for business” and “I remember it differently” are not on that list. The reply is where a practitioner answers those.
Some reviews are held before publication rather than after — when they appear to contain health details or a serious allegation, a person reads them first. That usually takes a day. Being held is not a rejection, and the writer is told either way.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it. Practitioners can correct or remove their own listing at any time, without giving a reason, via the practitioner page. For anything else, email the contact page. Substantive corrections to a guide or report are noted on the page itself.