Why Lean ?
Breaking News
LEA Door to Door Club member wins
HSJ Best Acute Trust award
We are honoured to be working in partnership with Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust who recently won the prestigious award.
The Trust had to fight off tough opposition from several other Foundation Trusts including University College London Hospitals, Derby Hospitals, Northumbria Healthcare and Salford Royal. After much deliberation the Judges chose Calderdale and Huddersfield describing them as “an extremely impressive and rounded organisation where care has been improved by focusing not just on safety but also on individual patient outcomes”.
Lean Summit 2010
New Horizons for Lean Thinking
2nd-3rd November, Kenilworth, UK.
The Lean Summit 2010 attracted a very engaged and knowledgeable audience ready to challenge the frontiers of lean thinking and provided real insight into what works and what does not.
Daniel’s Healthcare e-Letters
The Lean Healthcare Journey
Lean is alive and well in healthcare. But the more we learn the more new opportunities we can see. What are the next steps on the lean healthcare journey?
Lean Healthcare Door to Door
Making Hospitals Work triggered the second phase of lean healthcare. Hospitals using lean said “Linking admissions to discharge must be our next step”.
A Remarkable Story
How lean is transforming the patient journeys through what is thought to be the oldest hospital in Europe, founded in 1288!
The Potential of Lean Thinking in Healthcare
Speech to the HSJ Delivering Lean Healthcare conference - London, 9 February 2010
Read more Lean Healthcare e-letters and articles
Read more Daniel Jones Lean Edge blogs
Marc Baker & Ian Taylor's Blog
QIPP and Lean, Perfect Alignment ... But we see a gap
In the summer of 2009 David Nicholson (Chief Executive of the NHS) sent a letter to all Chief Executives of PCTs, NHS Trusts and NHS Foundation Trusts in England regarding the implementation of Lord Darzi's Next Stage Review (NSR): The Quality and Productivity Challenge.
6 April 2010
What problems are we really trying to solve here?
As we work with more and more healthcare organisations in the UK it becomes more and more apparent that these are problems that keep their Chief Exec awake at night ...
11 March 2010
Who’s Got Time for Lean in Healthcare?
Well intentioned lean improvements in healthcare are often stymied because staff simply don’t have the time or capacity to do lean.
25 February 2010
Read More Marc Baker and Ian Taylor blogs
About Marc Baker and Ian Taylor
Questions and Answers
Reduce your average Medical Length of Stay by more than half
Close Medical Wards Safely and Without Risk saving up to £1,000,000 per Ward per Annum
Reduce Nursing Bank and Agency spend to Zero
Discharge 50% of your Medical in-patients by Noon
Reduce Outliers to Zero
Achieve your 4 hour A&E Transit Time
Reduce your Elective Referral to Treatment time to less than 9 weeks
Win the ‘Hearts & Minds’ of your Clinicians
Reduce Turnaround Time for TTOs to less than 30 minutes
Save £1,000 per Ward per Month
Read more Questions and Answers
Lean Healthcare People
Clinical Associates
Dr Steven Allder - Clinical Director for the Stroke Service Line at Plymouth Hospitals Trust
Anne-Marie Brogan - Clinical Associate
Dr Paul Buss - Consultant Paediatrician and Director for Quality for Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board
Paul Jarvis - Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Rhiannon Jones - Assistant Director of Nursing responsible for Quality, Safety & Patient Experience in Aneurin Bevan Health Board
Peter Lewis - Divisional Director for Scheduled Services in the Aneurin Bevan Health Board
Dr Khalid Abdulnoor Saifeldeen - Consultant and Lead Clinician in Emergency Medicine in Hamad General Hospital, Qatar
Lean Healthcare Team
Marc Baker - Senior Faculty
David Brunt - Senior Faculty
Ken Robertson - Senior Faculty
Ian Taylor - Senior Faculty
What to do
Lean Healthcare
Who We Are,
What We Do ...
... And Why We are NOT a Healthcare Management Consultancy ...
The Tangible Benefits
Some of the Tangible Benefits that organisations have realised whilst working with the Lean Enterprise Academy.
Our Journey to Lean Healthcare
How the LEA team learnt how to make lean work in healthcare:
The LEA Journey
Marc and Ian’s Journey
Healthcare Downloads
Articles and e-Letters
Read our articles, e-letters, blogs and videos on Lean in Healthcare
Lean Hospital Audit
How Lean is Your Organisation ?
LEA's Expert Healthcare Lean Audit ...
Lean Healthcare Training
Lean Healthcare Executive Masterclass
The Executive Masterclass is designed to show executive teams how to un-pick problems and funnel down to the vital few, biggest problems. The vital few that if resolved will (more or less) resolve the many. The concept of ‘leverage’.
2 Day Training Workshop
Making Hospitals Work is a regular 2-day training workshop held at our offices in Goodrich, near Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.
Train-the-Trainer
Helping large Healthcare organisations build a core team of Lean trainers / coaches.
New 1 Day Training Workshops
Making Your Services Flow
How to get your Services to Flow, seamlessly, in Line with Patient Demand
Making Savings of £1,000 per Department / Ward per Month
How to make these savings through visual Stock Control without Compromising Patient Safety
Making Processes Manageable
How to reduce LoS and bank and agency usage whilst meeting your A&E target, discharging patients earlier in the day and improving patient safety through, visual, operational management
Making Lean Work in Healthcare
How to safely close medical wards without risk saving up to £1,000,000 per Ward per Annum
We’d like to give our customers the opportunity to tell us what workshops they would like to attend, so we have not scheduled dates for specific courses but will run workshop based on demand, on the subject that you feel would be of the most benefit to you. Please let us know your requirements.
Workshops are £400.00 per day (plus VAT), or £350.00 per day if more than 2 delegates from the same organisation are attending.
Events
Previous Summits
Presentations from previous Summits and forums are available here:
Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit Jul 2009
Expert Lean Healthcare Forum Oct 2008
4th Lean Healthcare Forum Oct 2007
1st Global Healthcare Summit Jun 2007
3rd Lean Healthcare Forum Oct 2006
2nd Lean Healthcare Forum Jun 2006
1st Lean Healthcare Forum Jan 2006
How to do it
Working Together
The Door to Door Club
A network of hospitals working together to lean their patient journeys and create the management systems to make them work.
Find out more about The Door to Door Club
Lean Community
Join the Community
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Lean Bookshelf
Making Hospitals Work
by Marc Baker and Ian Taylor with Alan Mitchell
How to improve patient care while saving everyone’s time and hospital’s resources.
Price: £42.50 - Buy Now (Discount of 20% on 10+ copies)
Lean Thinking for the NHS
An essential introduction to Lean Healthcare.
Now available in ItalianFree Webinar
View the (free) Making Hospitals Work Webinar
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About Us
The Lean Enterprise Academy is a non-profit Academy established to develop knowledge of Lean Thinking and its implementation and to disseminate this knowledge through publications and workshops.
Contact us
Enquiries:
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Orders:
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Telephone
Enquiries: 01600 890590
Fax: 01600 890540
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Goodrich
Ross-on-Wye
Herefordshire
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