News from October, 2007

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30th October, 2007

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!

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29th October, 2007

I met with a friend who works at an SHA today and she has recently been on a training course to develop her 'Lean Skills' (sadly not one of ours but there you go!) and during the five day course (which was manufacturing focused) it seems that they covered a whole range of pointless tools that you would only rarely use in a manufacturing context and which have very little application in a healthcare environment.

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27th October, 2007

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!

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27th October, 2007

I was chatting to a Service Improvement Lead in a trust we are not working with and she told me that her 'Lean Healthcare Programme' was one of a number of initiatives in her organisation - none of which were connected but all of which made a greater or lesser impact on Patient Safety, Experience and Outcomes as well as Organisational Effectiveness - how daft is that? More importantly, how risky is it that one programme will counteract the benefits of another?

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26th October, 2007

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.

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18th October, 2007

I was running a workshop at a major NHS Acute Trust in London today where we are working to improve/reduce the number of medication errors in their processes (the second largest group of patient incidents after slips, trips and falls).

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17th October, 2007

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.

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14th October, 2007

I have a week of Lean Healthcare activities coming up (2 days of improvement events, 1 day of Scoping and 1 day of training) with three different organisations (2 Acute Trusts and 1 PCT).

As I sit in a hotel in the Midlands with a member of our team I have been reviewing some of the comments we have gathered from organisations who have come to us after a Lean Healthcare programme has stalled and one of the most common problems was that 'it just did not deliver as much as we expected'.

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11th October, 2007

Just to let you know that there are some useful Lean Healthcare articles amongst my Ezine Article Submissions which can be found here........  http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Mark_Eaton

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11th October, 2007

To many 'Lean Healthcare' programmes focus purely on the tools and completely ignore the problems associated with getting the team to 'come with you' on the journey!

More important than the tools of Lean is the Cultural Change, Systems to Sustain Improvement and the need for Leadership Involvement at all stages.

What do you think?

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10th October, 2007

As you will have read before on this blog, only 25% of Lean Healththcare programmes will deliver the results that your organisation are looking for but we have some exciting news!

Coming in the next month is the opportunity to download our new FREE eBook on 'Sustaining Lean Healthcare Programmes'. Our eBook 'Lean for Practitioners' was described as 'Inspiring' whilst the first drafts of Sustaining Lean Healthcare Programmes' has been described by the reviewers as 'Essential Reading'.

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9th October, 2007

Only about 25% of organisations looking to go 'Lean' will achieve the desired results - meaning that 75% will fail to achieve the full benefits possible (and in some cases will fail to realise any benefits at all!)

So what is it that the 25% are doing differently? Well, for one thing they focus as much energy on the process as they do on the tools and even more energy on engaging with people and ensuring that managers and leaders at all level support the improvement teams.

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8th October, 2007

Lean (and Six Sigma) originated in Industry where organisations were looking to achieve consistent, effective and reliable processes. For many manufacturing companies, once their manufacturing facility was working effectively they realised that their admin/sales and other office areas were causing problems as well and soon Lean Manufacturing became 'Lean Office'.

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7th October, 2007

You might be living proof that not everyone has read our FREE eBook (Lean for Practitioners) which was described as 'Inspiring' by one reader and 'Excellent and Really, Really Useful' by another. To obtain your free visit our WEBSITE and join our Newsletter Network when you will be sent a link to enable you to download our free gift to you!

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7th October, 2007

Over the last few weeks I have received a number of enquiries about doing 'Rapid Improvement Events'.

The way it normally goes is that I get an email which reads; "I would like to discuss you coming to do a Rapid Improvement Event on the X, Y & Z of Month X"

Now, I am a fan of Rapid Improvement Events - but as part of an improvement process not as the 'be all and end all' of the improvement process.

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7th October, 2007

Do you believe Lean Healthcare is a panacea that will resolve all the things that need to be fixed in the Healtcare system?

I was in a presentation this week and it was clear that people in the audience felt that 'Lean Healthcare' was the answer to all their problems.

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