Tag: England
Measuring for Improvement
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Caution! Warning Signs in the UK
I was fortunate to be in England for five days last week. I saw the "gemba" at five hospitals in three days and attended...
Random Lean Thoughts – July 13
Today's blog post will be just a bunch of random thoughts. For one, I just got back from London last night after a whirlwind...
Reminders: Upcoming Lean Healthcare Events
A reminder about two upcoming events for the Lean Healthcare community:MIT Professional Education - Short Programs: MIT will be holding three short courses on...
Medical Mistake in In-Vitro Fertilization: What’s More Effective, Blaming Process or...
IVF baby given to wrong woman - as couple's last embryo was aborted | Mail Online
This was front-page news in one of the UK...
Cost Crisis for the NHS? Quality Improvement Can Help?
Britain's health service "facing funding crisis" | Reuters:Watching the BBC morning news the other day, I took an interest in the discussion of the...
Holy Overproduction, Batman!!
Lean Service Blog: Unsold cars
Hat tip to Rob and the Lean Service Blog for pointing out these online pictures of auto industry "overproduction." Storage...
Lean in the Bolton NHS Trust, England
Making lean thinking work in the NHS
Here's an article about a British hospital. I've seen the CEO, David Fillingham, speak about Lean and it...
A Mention of Dr. Deming in a UK Editorial
Robert Heller: Why don't we hang bad admirals of industry? | Business | The ObserverI don't think the columnist is literally suggesting hanging CEO's......
Driving in the UK
I'm proud to report that I survived driving in the U.K. for the first time today, driving about an hour to Cambridge. I'm working...
Adventures in Food, England Edition
No, it's not that I've had bad food. Far from it! I know this isn't a food blog, but I wanted to briefly discuss...
"More Careful" or "Better Processes"?
NHS: 60,000 medication blunders in 18 months - Health News, Health & Wellbeing - The IndependentTrust me, I'm not picking on the NHS. There's...