How this site is written, reviewed and corrected

This document explains how content on profpaullee.com is created, reviewed and maintained. It applies to every page on the site: the canonical credentials and verification page, clinical-expertise pages, publications and research summaries, ecosystem project pages, and supporting media-and-press material.

Other sites in the wider ecosystem (London Cartilage Clinic, ACL.Repair, Meniscus.Repair, the hip and Lincolnshire clinical sites, Research MSK and Regen PhD) maintain their own editorial policies. Where they reference Professor Lee as a reviewer, author or named clinical lead, that reference points back to this site's credentials and verification page.

Drafting is done by Professor Lee or by a small content team working with him directly. Every clinical claim, credential entry, research summary and publication reference is checked against an authoritative source: a CV he has signed off, a peer-reviewed paper, a publisher's page, the GMC register, ORCID, PubMed, Google Scholar, the University of Lincoln's staff directory, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, or another independent body.

Generative AI tools may be used to support drafting, summarisation or formatting. They are not used to introduce clinical claims, qualifications, dates, statistics, treatment recommendations or authorship that has not been verified against a primary source.

Professor Paul Y. F. Lee, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon on the GMC Specialist Register for Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, is the named medical reviewer for clinical content on this site. He holds active substantive NHS practice at United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Harley Street independent practice, and is the host clinical lead at an ICRS Accredited Teaching Centre of Excellence for cartilage and joint preservation surgery.

His credentials are documented and independently verifiable on the canonical /credentials-and-verification page, which is the anchor every clinical page links back to.

Clinical-information pages carry an explicit "Last reviewed" date in the page header and in the page's structured data. They are reviewed at least every 12 months, and immediately when:

• A published study or new device approval materially changes the clinical position.
• A credential, registration, appointment or commercial relationship changes.
• A reader, peer or regulator flags an inaccuracy.

Awards, honours, publications, ecosystem and project pages are updated when the underlying record changes, typically when a new award is announced, a new publication is indexed, or an entity status changes (active to historical, planned to active).

Independent, primary sources are preferred over secondary commentary. For clinical content:

• Peer-reviewed publications and recognised orthopaedic society guidance take precedence.
• Published systematic reviews and meta-analyses are cited where they exist.
• Editorials and opinion pieces are clearly labelled and not used to support causal clinical claims.

For credentials, registers and identifiers, the source is the regulator, the issuing university or society, or the platform that maintains the persistent identifier (GMC, ORCID, PubMed, Scopus, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the University of Lincoln, the ICRS, the British Orthopaedic Association, NHS England, the Health Foundation, Innovate UK, EPSRC).

Professor Lee founded, directs or holds commercial interests in a number of clinics, companies, labs, technology platforms and a charity. These are listed in full on /conflicts-and-disclosures.

Where a clinical-expertise page discusses a treatment, technique or device in which Professor Lee has a commercial interest (for example ChondroFiller, where his UK-distribution interest sits with Actomed), the relevant interest is disclosed in line on that page and is consolidated on the conflicts page. Patient-suitability and treatment-selection content is written from a clinical perspective; commercial framing is kept separate and labelled.

Where the recommended treatment for a given patient is provided by an entity Professor Lee does not own (for example certain NHS or referral pathways), it is recommended without reservation.

Material errors are corrected on the affected page as soon as they are confirmed. The page's "Last reviewed" date is updated and a brief change note is added when the correction touches a clinical claim, a credential, a date or a number.

To report an inaccuracy please use the contact route at /work-with-professor-lee. We aim to acknowledge corrections within two working days and to publish or respond within seven working days.

London Cartilage Clinic, where Professor Lee carries out his Harley Street private practice, is a CQC-registered service. The associated policies (safeguarding, complaints handling, information governance, infection control) are maintained at the clinic level. Patient-care complaints relating to clinical episodes should be raised through the clinic that delivered the care; complaints relating to website content should be raised through the contact route above.