Amnis are delighted to announce the next open programme of our popular Accelerated Lean Skills Programme (ALSP) in partnership with Hammersmith & Fulham PCT.
 
Over forty five healthcare organisations have benefited from the ALSP's exceptional training and practical advice in the last 12 months alone and it has helped them kick-start their improvement activities, or get flagging Lean activities back on track.
 

With less than 1 month to go before the next open 'Accelerated Lean Skills Programme'! Combining expert training with hands-on exercises in an exciting and lively environment, the ALSP delivers real knowledge and real improvement in your organisation.
 
Participants are invited from the NHS, Private Healthcare and other public organisations and the programme covers 3 days of training and a short project afterwards. The dates of the next programme are 24th-26th Feb 2009 and the programme will be held in Oxford.

The Amnis Newsletter is a free information service that offers hints, tips and downloads to help you get the most out of your service improvement and Lean programmes.
 
To download a pdf version of January 09 edition click here http://www.downloads.amnis.uk.com/AmnisJan09.pdf

Amnis are delighted to announce the launch of our 2009 Training Brochure.
 
Covering all five areas of the skills and capability building we provide (Lean/Six Sigma, Team & Project Development, Strategic Thinking, Risk & Patient Safety and Organisational Development & Change) the brochure is available in 'soft' copy or printed versions to commercial and public sector organisations who want to improve their organisational capability and skills.
 

During 2008 Amnis trained over 2,500 people in a wide range of skills from Lean to Cultural Change and from Value Stream Mapping to People Based Project Management.
 
Of the total of 2,500 people, over 1,000 were trained on our flagship 'Improvement Practitioners Programme' and 'Accelerated Lean Skills Programme' which included those who attended the Open Programmes we ran with Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust, as well as our highly popular open programmes we ran in Oxford and Manchester last year.
 

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I was chatting to a friend today and he mentioned the Triangle of Fire. This is the definition of the three things that make fires 'successful' - this being 'Heat', 'Oxygen' and 'Fuel'. It is the job of fire-fighters to remove one of these three elements to extinguish the fire - for example, pouring water on the fire to remove the heat, spraying it with CO2 to remove the Oxygen or simply removing the fuel so that it goes out.

This made me immediately think of a Lean Healthcare Triangle of Fire - with the elements being: