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The task of passing on important information related to an escalation of concern occurs in every care setting and between care settings (transfers of care) every day, for example, in a person’s own home, the back of ambulances when transferring a patient for place of detention a hospital, community clinics, GP surgeries, to name a few. It is just as important in any of these care settings to ensure that the handover, the escalation of concern, is timely and performed in a systematic manner.

In acute and community inpatient hospitals in the United Kingdom, the use of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) is now embedded into policies regarding identifying and escalating concerns about patient’s clinical observations, with a scoring system used to identify who should be contacted to provide further assessment of the patient. NEWS is discussed later in the chapter.