Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Caring Together: standard principles for handover to improve patient care
Source: New South Wales. Minister for Health. Media Release.
"NSW Minister for Health, Carmel Tebbutt, has launched new guidelines for clinical handover to ensure greater patient safety in NSW hospitals. “The ‘Key Principles for Safe and Effective Handover’ have been developed as part of the NSW Government’s Caring Together: A Health Action Plan for NSW, which is the response to the Garling Report, to create standardised and quality handover procedures in NSW,” Ms Tebbutt said."

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