License the clinical knowledge behind NICE CKS
The content behind NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries is available to licence for your product, platform or AI. Structured for machines, kept current, and used by more than 650,000 clinicians every month.
Agilio has been NICE's CKS content partner since 2012
Clinical AI is only as safe as what it's grounded in
Healthcare products are under growing pressure to show where their clinical answers come from, and generic or US-centric sources don't reflect NHS pathways or UK prescribing. Ground your product in the reference UK GPs already trust and you start with a stronger safety case and a clearer story for clinical governance teams.
The knowledge GPs rely on, ready for your product
Clinical Knowledge Summaries is the go-to clinical reference in UK general practice, covering more than 375 topics and 2,000 patient scenarios. Agilio's own clinical team writes and maintains every topic, and Agilio owns the content, so licences come directly from us.
Whether you're building an AI scribe, a decision support tool, a training platform or a pharma resource, you can embed, reference or build on our knowledge summaries.
Trusted across primary care, at every scale
Licencing Clinical Knowledge Summaries
Do you need a CKS licence?
No licence needed
- NHS employees using CKS solely to benefit the NHS and its patients.
- Students using CKS for their own education.
- Individuals using CKS for personal or educational purposes, not on behalf of an organisation.
Commercial or institutional licence needed
- Any company, business or private organisation outside the NHS using CKS to support its work. That includes universities.
- Anyone embedding, referencing or building on CKS content in a product, platform, AI model or training resource.
CKS on the NICE website is available to users in the UK, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories. Outside the UK, clinicians can subscribe through Agilio Prodigy. For the full terms, see the NICE CKS End User Licence Agreement.
How it works
Built for AI. Proven in practice.
Trusted Reference
Your model needs a trusted reference. An ambient scribe or decision support tool has to suggest treatments that match NHS practice, and show clinicians and regulators where those suggestions come from.
Ingest and Guide
Ground your solutions in Agilio Clinical Knowledge. Ingest structured topics into your RAG pipeline, fine-tuning or evaluation framework. Use them to constrain outputs, validate suggestions and explain reasoning.
Anchored in the NICE CKS
A product you can stand behind. Answers are anchored in the same content NHS GPs consult every day, with a clear source and a release history to support your safety case.
Leading ambient scribe and clinical decision support companies already licence Agilio Clinical Knowledge for exactly this.
Why AI and digital health teams choose Agilio Clinical Knowledge
Structured for machines, not just people
Topics follow real consultation structure: presentations, red flags, differentials, investigations and treatment pathways. That makes them simple to ingest and quick to put to work.
One schema across every topic
Every topic follows the same format, so you can train and benchmark models reliably without spending engineering time normalising inconsistent sources.
A reference layer for safety and governance
Use the content to constrain model outputs, support clinical explanations and build a credible safety case for regulators and clinical governance teams.
UK-specific and always current
Reflects NHS pathways, UK prescribing and primary care workflows. Regular releases come with change notes, so you know exactly what's changed and where to re-validate.
What makes Agilio Clinical Knowledge different
Written, not aggregated
Agilio's own clinical editorial team writes and maintains the content. Nothing is scraped or compiled from third parties, so you get consistent quality, clear provenance and a direct line to the people who maintain it.
NICE-published and commercially licensable
CKS is free for NHS clinicians through NICE. Building on it commercially needs a licence, and because Agilio owns the content, that licence comes directly from us.
Proven at scale
The content already supports more than 650,000 clinicians a month through NICE, Prodigy and partner platforms. The formats and release processes are well established.
Who we help
Who licenses Agilio Clinical Knowledge?
Organisations whose products or services depend on accurate UK clinical knowledge, from early-stage AI teams running a pilot to established NHS suppliers deploying nationally. If clinical knowledge sits at the heart of what you build or deliver, there's likely a licence that fits.
| Who | Example use cases |
|---|---|
| AI scribes and copilots | Grounding model outputs, validating treatment suggestions, real-time decision support |
| Clinical decision support tools | Embedding evidence-based guidance into clinical workflows and algorithms |
| EHR and workflow platforms | Enriching clinical records with structured, updatable primary care content |
| Drug knowledge and algorithm builders | Adding diagnosis and treatment context to pharmacological data |
| eLearning and CPD providers | Building clinically accurate, NICE-aligned training for healthcare professionals |
| Universities | Teaching medical and nursing students with current NHS-standard guidance |
| Pharma | Medical affairs, training and marketing materials that need evidence-based clinical context |
| Private healthcare providers | Aligning private practice with NHS standards and primary care pathways |
| Government and public bodies | Informing policy, pathway design and workforce programmes |
| Enterprise and occupational health | Supporting employer health programmes with trusted clinical reference content |
Insights
Building safely with clinical knowledge
Guidance for product, data and clinical safety teams working with UK clinical content.
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