"This project demonstrates that replacing an ad-hoc system of handover with a multi-disciplinary, team based approach to handover improves handover quality. In addition it provides a useful guide to introducing a new handover meeting to a department and contains useful lessons on how to combat cultural barriers to change within a department."
Improving the quality of handover by addressing handover culture and introducing a new, multi-disciplinary, team-based handover meeting
H Walton, W Munro
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u206069.w2989
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QIPP (Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention) aims to help NHS organisations deliver higher quality care and operate more efficiently and effectively. The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust has set up a programme to implement QIPP across the trust. This blog, delivered by the RFH Medical Library, will highlight latest papers about QIPP to support the Trust as they carry out this work.
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