Care handover sheet
Keep current instructions, contacts and agreed responsibilities together for the people caring for your horse. Record who will do each part, who will cover and which arrangements still need an answer.
Fillable PDF · A4 portrait · 4 pages · English
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What is included
- The horse’s location, contacts, existing emergency arrangements and observations to pass on.
- Current care instructions, their sources and temporary changes.
- A separate agreement record for the person doing each responsibility and the person providing cover.
- Practical checks for access, instructions, equipment and agreed supplies, with a separate list of open questions.
- Four pages you can fill in digitally, save and update, or print and complete by hand.
How to use the handover
- Save the PDF. Fill it in using a PDF app that supports form fields, or print it. Use one handover reference for the horse and period covered.
- Identify current instructions and keep their originals available. Record source dates or versions and when temporary changes apply.
- Discuss each responsibility with the person doing it and their cover. Record each person’s agreement separately, including who confirmed it and when.
- Walk through the practical checks together. Record what you found and add missing access, supplies or agreements to the open-questions list.
- Agree how updates and changed instructions will be shared. Save the completed copy and share it with the carers. For a later handover, save a new copy with its own reference and dates.
Only text visible inside a box will print; each line break uses space. If a box is full, continue in a separate blank copy of this PDF, using the same horse and handover reference. Do not duplicate a page within the PDF. On paper, use another printed copy of the relevant page. Save and reopen your completed files to check that every line is visible before sharing or printing them.