Terms and conditions

Last updated: 5 October 2026

In short

  • Manova is a CQC-registered online clinic. A UK-registered clinician reviews every assessment before anything is prescribed.
  • You pay when you submit your assessment. If treatment isn’t right for you, you get a full refund.
  • To cancel, email us before your order goes to the pharmacy. Prescription medicines can’t be returned once sent.
  • Questions or complaints: [email protected]

These terms apply when you create an account or submit an assessment with Manova. They do not affect your legal rights as a consumer under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 or other consumer law.

Not an emergency service: for urgent help call 111, or 999 in an emergency. In Northern Ireland, contact your GP or GP out-of-hours service, or call 999 in an emergency.

Contents

  1. Who we are
  2. Who can use our service
  3. How the service works
  4. Your responsibilities, side effects and your GP
  5. Prices, payment and refunds
  6. Ordering more treatment
  7. Cancelling an order, and your right to change your mind
  8. Delivery
  9. If something goes wrong
  10. Your account and acceptable use
  11. Our responsibility to you
  12. Complaints
  13. Changes, governing law and other terms

1. Who we are

Manova is operated by Manova Health Limited, registered in England and Wales, company number 16450205. Registered office: Business First, Northlight Parade, Brierfield, Nelson, BB9 5EG. Email [email protected]. Support hours 8am to 8pm, Monday to Sunday. We do not have a phone line, so please contact us by email.

We are a CQC registered clinic, provider ID 1-24107057386. Our clinicians are GMC-registered doctors and GPhC-registered pharmacist independent prescribers. We are not a pharmacy: a separate registered pharmacy dispenses your medicine and posts it to you. Orders are dispensed by a GPhC-registered pharmacy in our partner network, and its details are printed on your medicine’s label.

We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office, registration number ZB911971. Our patient platform, covering assessments, accounts and the prescribing workflow, is provided by Healthera Ltd, company number 09609198, on our behalf. Our services are private healthcare, not NHS services.

2. Who can use our service

You can use our service if you are aged 18 or over, live in the UK with a UK delivery address, are using it for yourself and not for anyone else, and can consent to your own treatment. We may need to check your identity and age before treatment, and cannot treat you if we cannot verify them.

3. How the service works

  1. You complete an online medical assessment.
  2. We take payment when you submit it.
  3. A registered clinician reviews your answers, and may ask you questions, ask for more information or evidence, or ask for your consent to contact your GP.
  4. If treatment is clinically appropriate the clinician issues a prescription. If it is not, we tell you and refund you in full.
  5. We send the order to our partner pharmacy, which dispenses your medicine and posts it in discreet, unbranded packaging.
  6. If you need more treatment later, you place a new order (section 6).

Our clinicians decide, and they can say no. Every prescribing decision is made by a registered clinician using their professional judgement; there is no automated prescribing. Paying for an assessment does not guarantee a prescription, or a particular medicine, dose or quantity. A clinician may decline to prescribe, prescribe something different, change your dose, limit quantities, pause or stop treatment, or suggest you are seen elsewhere.

Some treatments need extra checks before they can be prescribed safely. A clinician may ask for more information, for verification of your identity, or for evidence to support what you have told us, and may decline to prescribe if they cannot get what they need.

We are not your GP and not an emergency service. We treat specific conditions online and do not provide general medical care. If you are unwell, need urgent help or have symptoms that worry you, call 111, or 999 in an emergency. Keep using your GP for your general healthcare. Information on our website is general information, not personal medical advice.

4. Your responsibilities, side effects and your GP

To keep you safe, you must:

  • answer honestly and completely, in your assessment and at any later check-in — including about your medical history, every other medicine you take (including anything bought elsewhere or prescribed by another provider), allergies, weight and symptoms;
  • tell us promptly if things change, including if you become pregnant or are planning to;
  • use your own details and never order for anyone else;
  • read the patient information leaflet, take your medicine only as prescribed and store it as instructed; and
  • keep medicines away from children and never share them.

Our clinicians rely on what you tell them, and false or incomplete information can lead to unsafe treatment. If we reasonably believe information has been deliberately falsified, or our service misused, we may cancel your order, suspend or close your account, and where appropriate share information with the relevant authorities.

Side effects. If you have side effects or are worried about your treatment, contact our support team at [email protected] and a member of our clinical team will respond. If your symptoms are severe or urgent, do not wait for our reply: call 111, or 999 in an emergency. You can also report a suspected side effect to the medicines regulator through the MHRA Yellow Card scheme.

Telling your GP. Your GP holds your full medical record, so sharing helps keep you safe. For some treatments we will ask for your GP’s details and your consent to share information with them. That is your choice, but if you do not consent, or do not have a GP, the clinician will decide whether it is still safe to prescribe and may decline. We would only share without your consent where the law requires it or someone is at risk of serious harm.

5. Prices, payment and refunds

Prices are shown before you submit your assessment and include VAT where it applies. We show the total price, before you pay. Standard delivery is free.

We take payment when you submit your assessment. Payments are processed securely by our payment provider; we do not store your full card details. If we change our prices, the change applies to future orders only: the price shown when you submit an assessment is the price for that order.

If a clinician decides treatment is not clinically appropriate for you, we refund in full the amount you paid for that order, to the payment method you used. We make refunds as soon as we can, and within 14 days where the law requires a refund within that period.

6. Ordering more treatment

We do not run subscriptions. Each course of treatment is a separate, one-off order, and there are no recurring payments, no automatic renewals and nothing for you to cancel between orders. You will not be charged again unless you place another order yourself.

When you want more treatment, you place a new order in your account. Before we can supply again, you will answer a short set of questions so that a clinician can review whether the treatment is still appropriate for you.

A clinical check-in or review is needed before any further supply, and a clinician may change, pause or stop your treatment on clinical grounds. As with your first order, we take payment when you submit the assessment and a clinician decides whether treatment is clinically appropriate; if it is not, we refund you in full, as set out in section 5. A payment is never a promise of a prescription.

We may decline to supply again if a clinician decides treatment is no longer appropriate, if a medicine becomes unavailable, if we stop offering a treatment, or if you seriously break these terms. We will tell you and refund anything you have paid for a supply we will not send.

Do not stop or change a treatment you are already taking without advice — stopping some medicines suddenly can affect your health. If you are unsure, contact our clinical team or your GP.

7. Cancelling an order, and your right to change your mind

Our cancellation rule, in one line: you can cancel any order for a full refund at any time up to the point we send the order to our partner pharmacy for dispensing. After that we cannot stop it: the pharmacy prepares and labels the medicine for you individually, and it cannot be reused for anyone else, so the order goes ahead and cannot be refunded. Your rights if something is faulty, damaged or wrongly supplied are not affected — see section 9.

This is the only cancellation cut-off we apply, and it applies wherever cancellation is mentioned in these terms.

Your statutory rights. For most things bought online, the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 give you 14 days to change your mind. Medicines supplied on prescription are different, and the Regulations say so: the right to cancel does not apply to a contract for the supply of a medicine under a prescription (regulation 27(2)(a)). Our own rule above is more generous than the law requires, because it lets you cancel after a prescription has been issued, right up to the point the order goes to the pharmacy.

What you boughtYour right to change your mind
Your assessment, clinician review and any medicine, before the order is sent to our partner pharmacyCancel for a full refund by emailing [email protected]. Orders are usually reviewed and sent to the pharmacy on the day you place them, so please contact us as soon as possible. Once an order has been sent to the pharmacy we cannot recall it.
Your assessment and clinician reviewA clinician reviews your assessment, usually on the day you submit it. If treatment is not clinically appropriate, you are refunded in full (section 5).
Prescription medicines, once the order has gone to the pharmacyNo cancellation or return for a change of mind (regulation 27(2)(a)).

We cannot accept returns of medicines except where they are faulty or we sent the wrong item. If you have medicines you no longer need, take them to any pharmacy for safe disposal rather than putting them in your bin.

8. Delivery

We deliver to UK addresses only by tracked courier. Parcels are discreet and unbranded, with nothing on the outside showing what is inside. Delivery times run from when the pharmacy dispenses and posts your medicine, not from when you submit your assessment, and can be affected by clinician review, identity checks, stock or courier problems.

Please check your delivery address is correct. Your order becomes your responsibility once it has been delivered to you or to someone you have nominated; until then it is ours. If a delivery fails, the courier will try again or return the parcel; a parcel returned to the pharmacy cannot be sent out again where the medicine may have been affected. Contact us if your order has not arrived when you expected it, or if it arrives damaged or already opened — do not use a medicine from a damaged parcel. This does not limit your legal rights.

9. If something goes wrong

Under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, goods must be as described, of satisfactory quality and fit for purpose, and services must be carried out with reasonable care and skill.

If your medicine is faulty, damaged, not as described or not what was prescribed, do not use it and contact [email protected]. We will arrange a replacement or refund as the law requires, and we will pay any return costs.

No medicine works for everyone. Treatment not working as you hoped does not by itself mean it is faulty, but please tell us, as a clinician may be able to review it.

10. Your account and acceptable use

Keep your login details private, tell us straight away if you think someone else has accessed your account, and keep your contact and delivery details up to date. You can close your account at any time. We keep your clinical records for the period set out in our Privacy policy.

You must not use our service unlawfully or fraudulently; obtain medicines for anyone else or resell them; get around our clinical or identity checks, for example by opening extra accounts or changing your answers to become eligible; interfere with our website or platform; copy or scrape our content; or be abusive towards our team. We may suspend or close accounts where these terms are seriously broken, and we will refund anything paid for supplies we do not send.

We cannot promise the website will always be available or error-free, and we may change it. Its content belongs to us or our licensors, and you may view and print it for your own personal use only.

11. Our responsibility to you

We are responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of us breaking these terms or failing to use reasonable care and skill.

We do not exclude or limit our liability where it would be unlawful to do so. That includes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, by us or by our employees, clinicians, agents or subcontractors; for fraud; for breach of your rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015; and for anything else that cannot be excluded by law.

We are not responsible for loss that is not foreseeable; for business losses, as our service is for personal use; for harm caused because you gave inaccurate or incomplete information or did not follow your clinician’s advice or the instructions supplied with your medicine, except where we or our clinicians were also at fault; or for delays caused by events outside our reasonable control, in which case you can cancel any order that has not yet been sent to our partner pharmacy and receive a refund.

12. Complaints

If something has gone wrong, please tell us. Email [email protected] with “Complaint” in the subject line, saying what happened and what you would like us to do. If someone is complaining on your behalf, we will need your consent before discussing your care with them.

We will acknowledge your complaint within 3 working days and aim to give you a full response within 20 working days. If we need longer, we will tell you why and keep you updated.

If you are not satisfied with our response, you can contact:

  • the Care Quality Commission, about the safety or quality of our service. The CQC does not investigate or resolve individual complaints, but it uses what people tell it;
  • the General Medical Council, about a doctor’s fitness to practise;
  • the General Pharmaceutical Council, about a pharmacist independent prescriber or the pharmacy that dispensed your medicine; or
  • the Information Commissioner’s Office, about how we have handled your personal information. See our Privacy policy.

We are not currently a member of an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) scheme, so if we cannot resolve your complaint between us, the routes above and the courts are open to you. The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman cannot look into complaints about privately funded healthcare.

13. Changes, governing law and other terms

Changes. We may update these terms, for example if the law, regulatory guidance or our service changes. Changes never take effect simply by being posted on our website, and they apply to future orders only: the terms in force when you submit an assessment govern that order.

Governing law. These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. If you live in Scotland you may bring proceedings in Scotland or in England and Wales; if you live in Northern Ireland, in Northern Ireland or in England and Wales. You keep the benefit of any mandatory consumer protections that apply where you live.

Other terms. We may transfer our rights and obligations, for example if the business is sold; we will tell you and your rights will not be reduced. You may not transfer yours, and no one else can enforce these terms. If a court finds part of them unlawful, the rest continues to apply, and if we do not insist on something straight away we can still insist on it later. We use your information as set out in our Privacy policy. These terms, and our communications with you, are in English.

Contact. [email protected], 8am to 8pm Monday to Sunday, or Manova Health Limited, Business First, Northlight Parade, Brierfield, Nelson, BB9 5EG.