Showing posts with label handover. Show all posts
Showing posts with label handover. Show all posts

Monday, 9 March 2015

The Handbook: an end to 'I wish I had known that before I started'

"Through a junior doctor led service improvement initiative we created an intranet-based, updateable, easily accessible, and secure resource to assist junior doctors during this transition period."

The Handbook: an end to 'I wish I had known that before I started'

M Davies, S Panchal, N Misra
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u203210.w1579

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Friday, 6 March 2015

Ceiling of care decisions at an older person's mental health unit

"The issue was that decisions around ceilings of care for patients were often not discussed or at least recorded in the electronic notes and as a result when reviewing deteriorating patients out of hours trainees would find themselves without any guidance on the treating medics opinion on what was in the best interests of the patient."

Ceiling of care decisions at an older person's mental health unit in Gloucestershire
P Slack, A Rose
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u207618.w3050

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Tuesday, 11 December 2012

Making ambulance handover delays a thing of the past


"In this report, we have looked at ambulance turnaround delays on a national and whole system basis for the first time. "

Zero tolerance: making ambulance handover delays a thing of the past
NHS Confederation, Association of Ambulance Chief Executives
December 2012

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