NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries: a gem for general practice

Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) from NICE provide primary care practitioners with a readily accessible summary of the current evidence base and practical guidance on best practice. It is a gem of a resource that should be known and used by all GPs and doctors training in general practice.

By Harry Brown On 8 Jul 2019 Last updated 6 Oct 2022

Within the huge and highly informative NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) website lies a gem of a resource called Clinical Knowledge Summaries or CKS for short. It is a brilliant product that should be known and used by all GPs and doctors training in general practice. The CKS service provides summaries of the best available evidence and practical guidance on best practice in an accessible, easy to use format, covering a full range of primary care presentations for over 350 topics. Each year 10 new primary care topics each year, based on published NICE clinical guidelines, are released. The

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