Skills & Procedures

The Royal Marsden Manual Online

The Royal Marsden Manual Online provides you with easy, straightforward access to evidence-based skills and procedures. The ninth edition is mobile optimized and supports smartphones and tablets.

How to Access?

You can access the Royal Marsden Manual without passwords on the Trust computers by using the quick links/clinical Apps/ Royal Marsden online listed on the Intranet homepage. To access remotely you need to login with OpenAthens. If you don’t have NHS Open Athens account you can register now.

ClinicalSkills.net – ClinicalSkills.net provide access to step-by-step illustrated clinical procedures. Password free access is available on the Trust intranet, to access remotely OpenAthens login is required.

Procedures related to COVID would be useful (login with OpenAthens), you can access the other respiratory procedures depending on your role.

Videos from Public Health England on donning and doffing safely.

Health Education England- Essential Skills for Deployed Staff – Just in time training for those deployed in the COVID response January/February 2021

Evidence searches

The librarians can undertake COVID-19 evidence / literature searches for Trust staff. Complete the online form or send us an email to let us know the details. Request a search

COVID-19 Staff Publications

Information for Patients & Carers

Health Information for Patients

BBC Health News

Hantavirus: WHO chief says public health risk is low

The origin of the outbreak is still unknown, with the World Health Organisation saying investigations are "still under way".

Having hantavirus was 'hell on earth'

Two survivors who caught the hantavirus years earlier told the BBC they both felt lucky to be alive.

When does snoring become a problem?

When should we worry that our snoring might be the sign of a larger problem?

Anaemia and the new dementia link

Anaemia and the new dementia link

How worried should we be about hantavirus?

Some passengers potentially exposed to hantavirus have already taken flights to numerous countries.

Hantavirus-hit cruise ship on way to Canary Islands after three evacuated

A British man is among three evacuees sent to the Netherlands after displaying symptoms while aboard the MV Hondius.

What is hantavirus and how does it spread?

The Andes strain of the virus, which can rarely be passed from person to person, has been confirmed in some passengers.

'I didn't know how much I struggled with my autism at school'

Rapper Professor Green, real name Stephen Manderson, has long been open about his mental health difficulties and has joined up with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy which reports seven in 10 men don’t seek support until they hit crisis point.

Cruise passengers tell of life on board stranded ship after hantavirus outbreak

While passengers onboard the MV Hondius say the situation is calm, they face days at sea as officials warn the disease may have spread.

Hantavirus strain that spreads between humans found in cruise ship passengers

South Africa's health ministry said the Andes strain of the virus was found in two confirmed cases linked to the outbreak.