What is Lean thinking?
Lean is an improvement approach, designed to improve flow and eliminate waste in order to improve quality, safety, productivity and cut costs. Originally developed by Toyota, lean thinking has been applied across the manufacturing and service sectors for decades and offers a proven approach to realising sustainable results and improving efficiency.
Lean thinking addresses workplace organisation, standardisation, visual control and eliminates worthless process steps to improve flow and eliminate waste.
How can Lean thinking benefit my trust?
Lean thinking is now being applied to processes within healthcare organisations, and its benefits to the NHS are becoming apparent, as healthcare providers utilise a range of concepts, tools and methods that effectively to improve patient process flow.
Significant reductions and delays and waste are being reported by healthcare organisations and departments adopting Lean thinking, including productively improvements in wards, theatres, sterile services, pharmacy, admission and discharge, health records, radiology, catering services and supplies.
With trusts and other healthcare providers under increasing pressure to ‘do more with less’, Lean thinking helps build continuous improvement thinking into their delivery strategies, reducing the issues, delays and frustrations patients and staff experience every day.
Lean healthcare simulation
Our Lean interactive simulation event is designed to help organisations learn to organise themselves as systems with defined flows for patients and information rather than a series of individual silos.
Our Lean healthcare simulation event helps equip attendees to:
- improve patient and organisational flow by identifying and eliminating waste in order to reduce delays
- get things right first time in order to improve quality and reduce costs
- empower staff and ensure they remain motivated to sustain results
- make the right, evidence-based decisions
- ‘learning by doing’, to obtain swift results
The programme also touches on Lean Six Sigma, Six Sigma, a powerful project management framework combined with statistical tools, which was developed by Motorola in the 1980s to reveal and deal with root causes of problems.
On completion of this interactive and enjoyable workshop users should understand the principles of Lean thinking processes, and be equipped to implement them in their own work environments.
How do I find out more?
To book your place on this timely and important workshop, contact us on 0844 7369410 or Salesdesk@isofthealth.com
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