Amnis, the quality, innovation and productivity enabler, has announced a collaborative training programme with The Institute of Operations Management (IOM), an executive arm of The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) and the professional organisation for operational management professionals.

Healthcare organisations – including hospitals – are giving up too soon on ‘Lean’ based improvement initiatives, according to specialist healthcare quality, innovation and productivity improvement enabler, Amnis.

Amnis, in partnership with Process Master (www.processmaster.com) are running an open workshop on the 21st July at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers to provide Lean Professionals from a wide range of sectors with an understanding of how they can effectively map their processes and then communicate them, edit them and update them, as well as attach documents, pictures and other important information.
 

Amnis will be leading a session on 'Lean Thinking for Managers' on the 15th May as part of the Institute of Healthcare Management's 'Managing for Quality Improvement' Conference.
 
For more information download the brochure here or ring Ruth Bodman on 0870-446-1002.

Value Stream Mapping
 

Amnis are delighted to announce their new partnership with Terema (www.terema.co.uk) who specialise in human factors training across both healthcare and aviation.
 
Working closely with clinical teams, and in particular theatre teams, Terema have a strong track record in helping teams to overcome barriers and improve performance.
 

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.
 

Amnis's Jim Byers will be presenting at the Lean & Six Sigma Conference on the 21st January 09 in London at 14.40. Jim will be presenting on the step-by-step guide to running Rapid Improvement Events.

Written for people outside of healthcare who have an interest in how Lean is being applied to the healthcare sector, Amnis were asked to provide a short article in the widely respected Quality World, the magazine of the Chartered Institute of Quality which is available to download by clicking this link: http://www.downloads.amnis.uk.com/QW(Dec08).pdf.
For more information, please call Ruth Bodman on 0870-446-1002.