The treating clinicians therefore have access to an initial verbal handover from the ambulance crew, a summary of the nurse’s triage and then access to the notes (once re- turned from the receptionist).
Of records analysed, 26% had at least one case of infor- mation not being transferred accurately, drug and allergy details being the most commonly mis-transferred. Three records had two discrepancies in information. Although no incidents of patient’s coming to harm as a result of the dis- crepancies were highlighted, these results show that fre- quent omissions and inaccuracies are made increasing the potential risk for patient care.