TY - JOUR T1 - Passing the baton: a systems approach to providing 24/7 medical care in a hospital JF - Future Hospital Journal JO - Future Hosp J SP - s5 LP - s5 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.2-2-s5 VL - 2 IS - Suppl 2 AU - Thomas Buttle AU - Burhan Khan Y1 - 2015/06/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/2/Suppl_2/s5.abstract N2 - Handover is defined as ‘the 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’. Owing to a changing NHS, increasing numbers of admissions and changes to structures of medical teams since EWTR and MMC in the UK, effective handover to incoming teams is essential to providing high-quality acute and out-of-hours care, as highlighted by … ER -