Making weekends safe and sound! Diana Princess of Wales Hospital Grimsby

Authors

  • L Cunliffe
  • A Yassin
  • D Waugh
  • A Bhatti

Abstract

Effective and safe Medical handover is essential to maintain high standards of clinical care. Therefore creating and maintaining a standard of handover is essential, as outlined by the Royal College of Physicians.
In a small District Hospital such as Grimsby there are often several challenges that face the out of hours on call doctors. This is often complicated by short staffing which can make their job very difficult. Following recent CQC recommendations, we saw an opportunity to make handovers more efficient and thus aimed to improve continuity of care and patient safety.

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2019-05-02

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