Better service before NHS cuts
If it is true that cuts are being made to frontline NHS services then they are getting it in the wrong order. With proper method better service and care can be provided and savings made in a matter of a few months without cutting service. There is plenty of waste in the NHS such that [...]
NHS A&E target "risks patient safety"
The BBC website reports what the chairman of the College of Emergency Medicine, Dr John Heyworth recently said about the 4 hour waiting target, “We’ve had nurses reduced to tears. We’ve had very senior consultants in emergency medicine threatened with a disciplinary process. “This is an outrageous misuse of the standard.” That this is being [...]
Jim Womack Reflects
In Jim Womack’s latest e-letter he describes a visit to the Arsenale in Venice where they pioneered flow systems in building war ships way back in the 15th century. All this looking backward made him wonder why Lean is not more widespread than it is. Reflecting on the spread of Lean he says, …we haven’t [...]
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