TL;DR — Healthcare Quality & Patient Safety by the NumbersPreventable medical errors remain one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Research suggests hundreds of thousands of patients die each year from avoidable harm, while millions more are injured due…
Here’s a fun video for a Saturday. In England, I love the Yo! Sushi chain of restaurants. It’s basically a continuous flow conveyor belt of sushi. You sit down and take what you want from the belt. The trays are…
Note: Welcome LEI visitors… you can check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org, as I hope you’ll come back. Here are some other recent posts: Where Did I Start With Lean? One Purple Audacious Goal Caution! Warning Signs in…
I was fortunate to be in England for five days last week. I saw the “gemba” at five hospitals in three days and attended the Lean Enterprise Academy Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit on Friday. One thing I was taking pictures…
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 Lean healthcare tour. I visited five hospitals between London and the south of England in three…
A reminder about two upcoming events for the Lean Healthcare community: MIT Professional Education – Short Programs: MIT will be holding three short courses on campus this July focused on various lean concepts geared towards busy professionals (Lean Academy ®…
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 papers that I read coming back from The Netherlands on Sunday. Coincidentally, I briefly saw…
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 cash crunch with the National Health Service and their “free” (free at the point of…
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 lots are filling up in England, as automakers keep factories running, cranking out cars that…
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 sounds like they are really trying to embrace Lean thinking into the hospital’s culture and…
Robert Heller: Why don’t we hang bad admirals of industry? | Business | The Observer I don’t think the columnist is literally suggesting hanging CEO’s… but his point is a good one, that the “carrot & stick” management philosophy is…
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 in a town without a direct rail link (would have to go down to London and…
