Abstract
Handover allows responsibility for immediate and continued care to be transferred between healthcare professionals. The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death and the Royal College of Physicians identified handover as a high-risk step of the patient pathway.1 Thus, lack of handover such as that at Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) is a major preventable cause of patient harm and critical to patient safety. The aim was to develop a formal, structured AMU night-to-morning handover, to enable safe recognition and handover of unstable and unwell patients, and to highlight priority tasks and specialty referrals. A qualitative questionnaire was …
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