Change log

Material changes to procedural content on UK IMG Navigator are recorded here with the date, scope and a short summary. Cosmetic and typographic fixes are omitted.

  1. Corrections

    Pathway timeline (rules 2026.10.17): PLAB 1 results now use the GMC's six-week wait; the scenario is labelled illustrative with its assumptions shown; one consistent week-to-month calculation; removed unsupported claims about English evidence, EPIC and PLAB 2 delays. Saved results keep the version they were made with. Sources were re-read by an automated check, not a human review.

  2. Journey

    Journey steps (catalogue 2026-10-17-n4b): booking PLAB 2 now appears only after you record a PLAB 1 pass; UK graduates and people on another accepted route no longer see PLAB steps; declaring GMC registration stops new pre-registration booking steps. Completed steps and your notes are kept.

  3. Corrections

    Removed the homepage claims "Test centres open ~6 weeks out" and "official up-to-date sources". Dates are now described by type: official expiry, booked date or planning target. Operator shown as ViQtor Davis Holdings.

  4. Corrections

    Removed placeholder team profiles and "reviewed by" bylines that did not correspond to real people. The site is owner-operated and no independent clinical or legal review has been recorded yet. Pages now show IMG Navigator editorial as the author.

  5. Fees

    Fees now come from one dated list checked against official pages on 16 Oct 2026 (an automated agent check, not a personal review): PLAB, GMC registration and annual fees, Standard Visitor and Health and Care Worker visas, funds to hold, EPIC and OET. IELTS fees are set by each centre. Figures we could not confirm show as unavailable rather than an old amount.

  6. Pricing

    Team plan marked as coming later; new Team purchases are paused. Pro now describes only features that exist today. Email reminders are not promised until delivery has been tested.

  7. Navigation

    Added dedicated in-app Back buttons across authenticated pages, tool pages and marketing guide pages. Back closes any open modal or sheet first (including on hardware browser back), then navigates to the logical parent (with browser-history fallback). Tool form inputs now persist per-route via sessionStorage so returning to a tool preserves your entries and scroll position.

  8. Tools

    Sprint 27: launched the tools workspace (per-user 'My saved results' at /tools inside the app), added a daily PLAB 2 deadline reminder cron (90/30/7-day thresholds, dedupe-safe in-app notifications), and shipped a Vitest suite covering the four rule engines with 26 boundary and scenario tests.

  9. Tools

    Sprint 26: rebuilt the Pathway Timeline visualiser with parallel lanes (English, PLAB, EPIC, GMC, employment), external-wait blocks flagged distinctly, fast / expected / delayed scenarios, EPIC-in-parallel toggle, month-scale Gantt view and save-to-workspace.

  10. Tools

    Sprint 25: rebuilt the PLAB 2 deadline calculator (risk bands, contingency target, leap-day-safe date maths, assumptions panel) and the PLAB cost calculator (mandatory / conditional / variable / retake split with low / expected / high scenarios and optional local-currency conversion), both wired to the versioned cost rule pack and save-to-workspace.

  11. Tools

    Sprint 24: rebuilt the Route Assessment tool on the versioned rules engine — five controlled result states (including an abstention state), reasons, missing evidence, warnings, up to three next official actions, and save-to-workspace for signed-in users.

  12. Platform

    Sprint 23: launched the shared free-tools foundation — versioned rules engine (route assessment and PLAB deadline packs), official source and fee registries with a reviewer workflow (no reviews recorded), saved tool results with per-user RLS, and a privacy-safe analytics event schema.

  13. Measurement

    Launched the AI-citation benchmark tracker (admin), the daily broken-official-link monitor, the public fee index at /fees and the State of the UK IMG Pathway 2026 report skeleton.

  14. Content

    Published NHS career and UK visa for doctors pillar clusters (8 new guides) and the pathway timeline visualiser tool.

  15. Content

    Published EPIC verification and GMC registration pillar clusters (8 new guides), the PLAB cost calculator, and added EPIC and NHS reviewer profiles. (Correction, 16 Oct 2026: those profiles were placeholders, not real people, and have been removed.)

  16. Content

    Published English language requirements, PLAB 1 and PLAB 2 pillar clusters (13 new guides) and the PLAB 2 deadline calculator tool.

  17. Site

    Launched public pillar content for the UK IMG pathway, editorial trust surfaces, sitemap and structured data.