A move from institutional to community health care means that health service staff are increasingly requested to visit patients in their own homes. This undertaking is not without risk, particularly where the patient or the locality is unknown. There are no nationally available guidelines for formally assessing potential risk to a health worker before the home visit. A protocol for risk assessment and a safety schedule before making a home visit was therefore developed and is described in this article. The difficulties in carrying out a comprehensive risk assessment are outlined. Several ways in which the assessment of risk before home visits could be made more effective are suggested.
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