Designing Lean Healthcare Systems
"Lean thinking is a way of streamlining the patient journey and making it safer, by helping staff to eliminate all kinds of waste and to treat more patients with existing resources. Originally developed by Toyota, it is now being successfully applied in hospitals worldwide."
Dan Jones Chairman, Lean Enterprise Academy
Lean Thinking for the NHS
Although the NHS has made significant progress over the last few years, there is a nagging doubt that the improvements should have been more significant more ...
Reflections on Lean Healthcare
It is still unclear whether lean thinking will turn out to be a wave or a fundamental driver for change in healthcare ... more ... (video)
Can Lean Save Healthcare?
In this interview David Ben Tovim from Flinders medical Centre in Adelaide, Australia, one of the lean pioneers talks about their progress with lean ... more ...
Lean Healthcare Events
The First Global Lean Healthcare Summit brought together the lean pioneers to launch the lean healthcare movement proceedings of this and our Healthcare Forums now available ... more ...
Creating Lean Healthcare
Ten years ago I visited the Mayo Clinic. I was not there as a medical patient. Instead I was a sort of lean anthropologist ... more ...
Leaning Healthcare
Healthcare is the next great industry to begin the lean journey. The existing model is reaching the end of the road ... more ...
Lean Thinking for the NHS