Tips and Guides
Our free tips and guides can help you find trusted health information and understand core health topics.
Finding trusted health information can be hard. The PIF TICK is one way to spot evidence-based, reliable information.
The posters below share some top tips to help you find trusted information. They also cover key health topics, like risk and BMI. All posters are free to download and share. If you have any feedback on our guides visit the contact us page.
Can I trust AI overviews for online health searches?
Find out more about AI overviews and how to stay safe when searching for health information online.
BMI – What you need to know
This guide is designed to help you understand what BMI is and why doctors use it.
AI and health information
AI has some good uses in health information but public AI tools come with risks.
How to find trusted health information on social media
Use these top tips to find and share trusted content.
Making sense of risks and benefits
Need to make a decision about an operation or a medicine? These tips will help you make sense of risk and benefit data.
What is patient data?
Our simple guide will help you understand what patient data is and how it is used.
False health information – the warning signs
Check what you are reading, watching or listening to, is reliable before sharing.
Finding trusted health information
These seven questions will help you decide whether health information can be trusted.
What is clinical evidence?
Understand different types of clinical evidence and research with the pyramid of evidence.
What is evidence and why is it important?
Find out what it means for trusted health information to be evidence-based.