Audit-specific guidance and standards
Source guidance for clinical handover and continuity of care.
GMC Good medical practice — continuity and coordination of care
Professional standard underpinning safe handover and transfer of clinical responsibility.
GMC
Open
NICE NG27 — Transition between inpatient hospital settings and community or care home settings
Guideline covering transfer of care, communication and information sharing.
NICE
Open
NICE QS136 — Transition between inpatient hospital settings and community or care home settings
Quality standard defining expected standards for transfer of care.
NICE
Open
NICE NG94 — Emergency and acute medical care in over 16s
Includes recommendations relevant to handover, escalation and out-of-hours care.
NICE
Open
Acute care toolkit 1: Handover
Professional guidance on structuring and delivering clinical handover.
Royal College of Physicians
Open
National Early Warning Score (NEWS2)
Supports handover of deterioration risk and escalation.
Royal College of Physicians
Open
ReSPECT — Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment
Reference for handover of treatment escalation status.
Resuscitation Council UK
Open
Local references
Configure the URLs in Project setup so your team can open them here.
Local clinical handover policy
Configure in Setup
Local handover template or structure (e.g. SBAR)
Configure in Setup
Local deteriorating patient and escalation policy
Configure in Setup
Local treatment escalation and ReSPECT guidance
Configure in Setup
Local hospital at night / out-of-hours SOP
Configure in Setup
Local transfer of care and discharge communication policy
Configure in Setup
Recommended Lazomis QI Resources
Published Lazomis QI guides relevant to clinical handover improvement.
Reducing Handover Failures for Safer Patient Care
Patient Safety
Guide
Directly relevant to whether handover is structured, complete, risk-aware and safe enough to support continuity of care.
Read
Designing Safer Clinical Processes: A Guide for Healthcare Teams
Patient Safety
Guide
Supports handover design, standardisation, escalation points and reduction of avoidable omissions.
Read
Achieving Reliability in Healthcare Systems: A Practical Guide
Patient Safety
Guide
Frames handover as a system reliability problem across shifts, transfers and out-of-hours cover.
Read
PDSA Cycles: A Practical Guide to Testing Change in Healthcare
Quality Improvement
Guide
Translates audit findings into tested improvements such as structured templates and action-owner tracking.
Read
Tool categories
Website tags — for tool-library navigation.
Primary
Acute Medicine
General Medicine
Patient Safety
Clinical Governance
Handover and Continuity