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.

Amnis is delighted to announce that Leanpad, the Lean Mapping Software created by our partners at Process Master with our support, has been award 'Project of the Year' in the Irish IT Innovation Awards (http://www.inspiredawards.com/).

Please feel free to download our October Newsletter from the following link: www.downloads.amnis.uk.com/AmnisOct.pdf.

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Amnis are delighted to announce a new event being run in partnership with New Cross Hospital (Wolverhampton) on 'People Based Project Management' on teh 23rd, 24th and 27th October.

Building on our extensive Project Management training for Healthcare Professionals, this open programme offers excellent training and guidance from our experts Gerry McAuley and John Field.

Read more about this event by visiting our Events Calendar http://www.amnis.uk.com/event. 

Amnis are delighted to announce the move of our 'home' (in electronic terms) to our new domain at www.amnis.uk.com.

Our old emails and web address will continue to work for the foreseeable future and, as ever, we welcome your feedback on our website and look forward to continuing to work with our clients and partners in the future.

Amnis will shortly announce our programme of training for 2009 delivered in partnership with the IOM & CILT. Our 2008 workshops have already benefited over 200 people.

We have two further events to run in 2008:

16th September - Understanding & Developing a Culture of Improvement

7th October - Sustaining Lean

To find out more, contact Ruth Bodman on +44 (0) 870 446 1002 or email ruthbodman(@)amnis-uk.com.

In addition, don't forget our other Lean Training, including:

Sustaining Lean Tuesday 7 October 2008Grill Room, Victory Services Club, 63-79 Seymour Street, London W2 2HF

With so many problems in Primary Care requiring options to be explored in detail it is no wonder that many PCTs feel overwhelmed by the decisions that need to be made. Should commissioning and provider arms be seperated more formerly in a different organisation, or retained within the organisation but seperated by a 'Chinese wall'.  What about the impact of applications to form social enterprises to deliver services and also the impact on the Acute Sector of the transfer of care back into the community, what does that do to their financial models?

With World Class Commissioning as the 'order of the day' within many healthcare organisations and many organisations struggling to find the right way to go, Amnis has been working with several PCTs to help them align their activities, identify where they are on the journey toward being 'World Class' and implement improvements in areas of weakness.