Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS)

The Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) service is an NHS funded resource that provides access to reliable clinical knowledge about many common conditions (formerly PRODIGY).

CKS provides concise summaries on how to manage almost 500 clinical situations (scenarios) commonly encountered in primary and first contact care. These Clinical Summaries are underpinned by detailed up-to-date clinical knowledge on common acute and chronic diseases, and disease prevention.

CKS can be accessed through the National Library for Health website at http://www.library.nhs.uk/. The conditions covered are indexed alphabetically and by clinical specialty.

Also available through CKS is the Dynamed clinical reference tool summaries for nearly 2000 topics. Dynamed is updated daily and monitors the content of over 500 medical journals and systematic evidence review databases. Each publication is reviewed and articles are evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content.