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Applying Lean in Health and Social Care Services: Improving Quality and the Patient Experience at NHS Highland


Applying Lean in Health and Social Care Services: Improving Quality and the Patient Experience at NHS Highland

Hardback by Stark, Cameron; Hookway, Gavin

Applying Lean in Health and Social Care Services: Improving Quality and the Patient Experience at NHS Highland

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ISBN:
9780367001896
Publication Date:
25 Jan 2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
CRC Press
Pages:
258 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 27 May - 1 Jun 2024
Applying Lean in Health and Social Care Services: Improving Quality and the Patient Experience at NHS Highland

Description

Organizations around the world are using Lean to redesign care and improve processes in a way that achieves and sustains meaningful results for patients, staff, physicians, and health systems. This book systematically describes how NHS Highland uses Lean principles and mindsets to improve safety, quality, access, and morale while reducing costs, and increasing capacity. Existing books often describe the gains obtained by using Lean methods, but often do not describe the underlying concepts and methods in details. Other books describe continuous improvement work, or specific techniques such as daily management in detail. This book seeks to occupy a middle space by providing an overview of the range of Lean ideas applicable to healthcare with sufficient examples and cases studies from NHS Highland and partner organizations so readers can see them in use and practice.

Contents

Dedications. Acknowledgements. Foreword by Prof Elaine Mead. 1 - Quality Improvement in Health and Social Care.2 - Value and Waste. 3 - 5S. 4 - Improvement Cycles. 5 - Continuous Flow. 6 - Levelling. 7 - Error Proofing. 8 - Visual Controls. 9 - Standard Work. 10 - Value Stream Maps. 11 - Maangement.

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