TY - JOUR T1 - The RCP toolkit for out-of-hours handover improves weekend handover: notes from a district general hospital JF - Future Hospital Journal JO - Future Hosp J SP - s35 LP - s35 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.2-2-s35 VL - 2 IS - Suppl 2 AU - Christina Fontaine AU - K Bennett AU - Rachel Nunn AU - Deblina Dasgupta AU - Robin Dart Y1 - 2015/06/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/2/Suppl_2/s35.abstract N2 - Out-of-hours care is an area of clinical risk, and handover is vital to maintain quality and continuity of care; we aimed to assess whether implementation of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) handover toolkit impacted on the quality of handover in our hospital.Handover is performed in person and via electronic handover documents on our trust intranet. Previously, a group of non-standardised pro formas were used for weekend handover by individual teams. The information contained within these was audited against … ER -