Page Index
- Clinical handover project
- Standard key principles for clinical handover
- Implementation Toolkit
- Templates
- eLearning modules
- Case for change
- Monthly updates
- Useful website links
- Acute Care Taskforce
- Implementation Resources
Contacts
State Program Director for Clinical Handover
Ph: 02 9391 9024
Principal Project Officer – Acute Care Taskforce Secretariat
Ph: 02 9391 9024
Senior Project Officer
Ph: 02 9391 9878
"Don't hesitate, communicate"
Clinical Handover Project
Updated - Draft JMO Clinical Handover Toolkit
Feedback from the JMO Toolkit recommended an abridged version. We have obliged with:
Draft JMO Handover Clinician's Summary (
pdf - 275 KB)
Standardising key principles for clinical handover in NSW
Clinical handover is the effective …
"transfer of professional responsibility and accountability for some or all aspects of care for a patient, or group of patients, to another person or professional group on a temporary or permanent basis."
1. SafeHandover: Safe Patients' guideline (AMA, 2006)
2. United Kingdom National Patient Safety Agency (2004)
3. The OSSIE Guide to Clinical Handover Improvement – Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (2009)
- Why should we standardise handover? - Case for change
- Keeping up to date - Monthly updates
- Policy - Clinical Handover: Standard Key Principles
- NSW Health - Useful website links
- Standard key principles for clinical handover
- Review and redesign your handover process - Implementation Toolkit
- Who, why, when and where should handover occur? - Matrix of clinical situations and handover options ( pdf - 44 KB)
- "Clinical Handover – Implementing Change" methodology summary ( pdf - 366 KB)
- Download an individual template - Templates
- More support is available - eLearning modules
- Implementation Resources - Tools and information developed by the Area Health Services
- The OSSIE Guide for Clinical Handover Improvements - Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
- Safe Handover : Safe Patients - The Australian Medical Association
- ISBAR: framework for communication ( pdf - 86 KB) - Hunter New England Area Health Service
See also ISBAR clinical handover project. - VITAL©: Nursing shift to shift and ward transfer handover ( pdf - 99 KB) - South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service
- Bedside nursing handover ( pdf - 61 KB) - North Coast Area Health Service
See also Improving patient safety through a new clinical handover procedure. - ACT SHARP: communication for escalating management of a deteriorating patient ( pdf - 50 KB) - The Wollongong Hospital
- PVITAL: bedside shift to shift handover ( pdf - 32 KB) - Campbelltown Hospital
See also Reducing risk by moving clinical handover to the bedside. - SBAR: Communication framework for nursing on all wards ( pdf - 42 KB) - Northern Sydney Central Coast Area Health Service
- Standardising key principles in clinical handover - Project contacts:
State Program Director for Clinical Handover
Ph: 02 9391 9024
Principal Project Officer – Acute Care Taskforce Secretariat
Ph: 02 9391 9024
Senior Project Officer
Ph: 02 9391 9878 - Taskforce leadership in clinical handover - Acute Care Taskforce
- A national initiative in clinical handover - Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care: Clinical Handover
- Champions for clinical handover: Contacts for existing handover models ( pdf - 23 KB)
