What do you want included in handover, that often isn't?

I am a new grad RN, 6 months in, currently on a medical ward.

I sometimes find that handover includes a lot of information I don't necessarily need, or can easily find myself, without including stuff I DO need, that may be harder to find.

For me, I've found that you can mostly skip the clinical stuff (other than immediately important things, of course). Obs frequency and time due, medications, history, etc, I can easily find. Yes, I want to know if they need a urine specimen collected today, if they're on airborne/droplet/contact precautions, if they've had a deterioration, etc but I don't need you to tell me they have a history of COPD - I'm going to read their recent doctor's notes as soon as I get a chance anyway.

What I want to know during a handover is what I need to do to help the patient OUTSIDE of the clinical stuff. I want to know if they're oriented, how they mobilise, how they void, if they require assistance to eat, and anything about their demeanour I should know (like if they're highly anxious or likely to get aggressive). These things are often difficult to find in their notes and often the first things I need to know - I can't count how many times I've walked into a room to do obs at 0730 and the pt says they need the toilet first. I need to know how they mobilise and how big of a falls risk they are, immediately.

Of course, I'm always trying to improve my handover, so I want to hear from other nurses: what information is critical in a handover? What is frequently left out? What has made you think "I wish I'd known that" when caring for a patient?