Medical and Technical Review Policy

Last updated 1 November 2026.

No page on Stairlift Costs has been reviewed by an occupational therapist, a clinician or a stairlift engineer. This page says why that matters, what we do instead in the meantime, and exactly how a page will show it once a qualified person has checked it.

Why some pages need a specialist

Most of this site is about money: published prices, grants, VAT and running costs. Those figures come from primary sources, and each page shows where. A smaller group of pages touches on health or on how a lift is fitted, for example our guides on arthritis, life after a stroke or hip operation and electrical requirements. Whether a stairlift is safe and suitable for a particular person depends on their body, their home and how both change over time. A website cannot assess that.

What these pages will and will not do

They will explain the questions worth raising, the features that exist and what the official sources say. They will not tell you that a stairlift, a model or a feature is suitable for a medical condition, and they will not suggest that a stairlift is the right adaptation for you.

The person who can judge that is an occupational therapist. In the UK you can ask your council’s adult social care team for an assessment, and it is usually free. Our guide to occupational therapist assessments explains how. For installation questions, a surveyor from the installer has to see the staircase before anyone can say whether a lift will fit.

Who can review a page

For health content, the reviewer must be an occupational therapist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), or another registered health professional working in the relevant area. Anyone can check a registration on the HCPC register.

For installation and safety content, the reviewer must have worked as a stairlift surveyor, installer or service engineer, and we will say for whom and for how long.

How a reviewed page will show it

A reviewed page will carry a short box near the top giving the reviewer’s name, their profession, their registration number where one exists, the date they reviewed it and what they checked. If they checked only part of the page, the box will say which part. If we pay a reviewer, or they work for a stairlift company, the box will say so.

When a reviewed page is later changed in a way that touches what they checked, the review date no longer applies. The box will then say the page has changed since it was reviewed, until the reviewer has looked again.

We will never invent a reviewer, borrow a name, imply that a professional body endorses us, or describe a page as expert-reviewed when it is not.

Until then

Health and installation pages are researched from primary sources: the NHS, GOV.UK and the devolved governments, legislation, the British Standard for stairlifts (BS EN 81-40) and makers’ own published specifications. Each one links to what it relies on. If you spot an error, the contact page reaches the editor, and fixes are logged on our corrections page.

Who runs the site is on our about page, and how guides are written and checked is in our editorial policy.