This tool helps a team state their intention (task, purpose and end-state) just before commencing a piece of work.

It also adds the discipline of predicting challenges and risks and, most important, drawing on lessons learned from past experiences.

More information

This postcard described the Before Action Review tool in words and pictures.

View the NHS Knowledge Mobilisation Framework elearning module on before action review.

Contact the Knowledge for Healthcare team on [email protected] for the postcard in an accessible format.

Page last reviewed: 16 June 2021