Delays in the handover of patients from ambulance crews to emergency departments (EDs) across England is causing avoidable harm and knock-on care issues, a healthcare watchdog confirmed. A report by ...

Patient handover in perioperative care represents a critical juncture in the surgical pathway where the transfer of clinical responsibility and detailed patient information is essential to ensuring ...

A lack of consistency among postoperative patient handovers can lead to poor clinical outcomes, according to research published in the July issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia. Researchers from the ...

The Royal College of Physicians, based in London, has published a free, downloadable toolkit focusing on patient handovers. The toolkit provides “a framework for standardization of clinical handover ...

East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) lost more than 19,500 hours in handover delays in January – the worst month for the ...

Ambulance handover times in England have shown signs of improving, but a new report suggested there is still a long way to go before performance targets are reached. An analysis by the Association of ...

About The Study: In this cohort study, implementation of the sickest patients first (SIPS) surgical handover system (introduction, situation, background, assessment, recommendation; prioritize; ...

Patients are waiting shorter times to be transferred from ambulances to hospital A&E departments in South Yorkshire than last year, the ambulance service has said. The county's five A&E departments ...

'Ongoing pressures' led to East Midlands Ambulance Service's worst month for nearly a year ...

Ambulance crews and A&E staff have slashed handover delays by more than 7 minutes this winter – even as they ferried the highest number of patients to ...

Why aren’t hospitals better at communicating? The founders of Careful say the problem is not the old cliché about doctors being good at treating patients, but hopeless at talking to them; rather, most ...