Amnis, with our partners DNV, has been pioneering a new approach to Lean in healthcare for some time.  Our messages are simple; lean is just one of a number of improvement tools you can choose to transform your organisation and if you are going to invest the time, resources and energy into making the change in the first place, it makes sense to do that in a way that is sustainable, safe and responsible.  The video below outlines the key components of this approach.  Take a few minutes to review it, download the eBooks and contact us at any time if you feel that your organisation could

As with my post of yesterday, I was chatting today with a friend who is leading an Acute Trust's drive to achieve Foundation Status and she made a statement which I thought would make an interesting post about Lean Healthcare.

Next week is another interesting week in the world of Lean Healthcare. Mental Health Trusts have started to realise that Lean also has applications in their arena and we are meeting with a further two trusts during the week (although I personally won't be going as I am working for most of the week in an Acute Trust).

Rather than provide some new insight, I thought I would summarise my plans for next week:

Monday: A Scoping Session for a Lean Healthcare Programme in the Acute Sector (focused on Outpatients) and this will be followed by a meeting with the CEO (the Scoping Session is part of a major programme of activity we are undertaking).

Whilst it is essential in most healthcare organisations to reduce their operating costs and ensure they provide a value for money service but it is difficult to engage front-line staff is that is the only focus of your improvement efforts.

Indeed, the best thing to do is to focus your improvement activities on improving patient safety, patient experience and clinical outcomes as improvements in these areas will generate improvements in organisational effectiveness and costs whilst also being more motivational for your front-line staff.

We have had a very exciting day today reviewing the final drafts of our Sustaining Lean Healthcare Programmes eGuide which is due out in the next two or three weeks today, whilst also finalising a new six minute video on why Lean Healthcare Programmes go wrong!

In addition to the information being posted here, have you also seen the related Blog Sites including:

Wordpress: http://leanhealthcare.wordpress.com/

Flexiblean: http://flexiblean.blogspot.com

And my own personal blog at http://www.markeaton.blogspot.com!

I spent much of the last week reviewing the final drafts of our new eBook 'Sustaining Lean Healthcare Programmes' which is due out in November.

In the book we have identified the Top Ten Warning Signs that your programme is going off track andlater on in November I will be posting our results - but before then I wanted to get your feedback on the problems you are having or have had with the introduction of your Lean Healthcare Programme?

Either post here or email me at markeaton(a)amnis-uk.com.

I ran a very exciting Lean Healthcare awareness session today. In the audience were a number of people who had been to other workshops which focused almost solely on the tools and terminology of Lean and left them feeling decidely 'unchuffed' that they were not told how to implement Lean (in a truly Healthcare manner rather than some form of 'modified' or hybrid manufacturing approach) and did not know how to sustain the improvements.