Lean healthcare reading

Read "Making Hospitals Work", from the Lean Enterprise Academy, which can be purchased from this web site. David Fillingham, Chief Executive, Royal Bolton Hospital Foundation Trust says "The potential benefit for patients, staff and taxpayers from applying lean to our hospital system is enormous. This workbook draws on a rich vein of lean expertise and applies it thoughtfully to the challenges involved in transforming patient care services. It should be required reading for anybody with a genuine interest in improving the way that hospitals work."

Read the book * (and watch the DVD) describing how two American hospitals used Toyota thinking and obtained excellent results. Most of the lessons can be applied to the Australia/New Zealand hospital systems -as those who attended the 5th "Redesigning Care" Summit in Brisbane in March 2009 fully realise.* "The Nun and the Bureaucrat - How They Found an Unlikely Cure for America's Sick Hospitals" is available for purchase on-line from this web site 

The NHS Confederation leading-edge report - Lean Thinking for the NHS is available for download here.

A hard copy of this report is available at £15 - email info@leanuk.org for more information.