Tag: England

Measuring for Improvement

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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...

Caution! Warning Signs in the UK

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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

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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

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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...

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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?

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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!!

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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"?

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NHS: 60,000 medication blunders in 18 months - Health News, Health & Wellbeing - The IndependentTrust me, I'm not picking on the NHS. There's...