Using LEAN to reduce fall on in-patient acute elderly medical wards Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Case Studies page Click on the two links to access the full-text Abstract: During June 2009 two acute medical wards with predominately older people underwent a one-week mapping gateway event. The Bolton Improving Care System was used which [...]
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Releasing Time to Care: The Productive Ward , 2010, NHS Institute for Innovation & Improvement Click on the title above to access the final report and summary Abstract: Following a period of intensive testing and development with a number of acute trusts in England, the NHS Institute has now launched a series of modules that [...]
Royal Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, How they Implement LEAN Click on the title above to access examples of Royal Bolton’s good practice About: Lean a Basic Guide Lean Glossary of Terms Lean Presentations etc Case studies & achievements Further references & links
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Lean thinking and more: Development of patient needs types in psychiatric intensive care, Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care (2010), 6:57-63 Thomas Kearney and Stephen Dye Community Acute Service Manager, Oxford and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Foundation Trust, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, UK Consultant Psychiatrist (In-patients), Suffolk Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, St Clements Hospital, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK Abstract: [...]
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Application of lean thinking to health care: issues and observations, International Journal for Quality in Health Care 2009 21(5):341-347 Tom Joosten Abstract: Background. Incidents and quality problems are a prime cause why health care leaders are calling to redesign health care delivery. One of the concepts used is lean thinking. Yet, lean often leads to [...]
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Going lean in the NHS: how lean thinking will enable the NHS to get more out of the same resources , 2007, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement Click on the title above to access the resource Abstract: An introductory guide for healthcare organisations seeking to: improve quality and efficiency improve patient care and experience improve [...]
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Staying Lean – Thriving, Not Just Surviving , IMRC , Cardiff University, 2008 Peter Hines et al. Click on the title above to access the full-text of this document Abstract: In the current climate, the pressure is on organisations to improve their performance to be able to compete in a global marketplace and this requires being [...]
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Lean thinking NHS Institute for Innovation & Improvement Click on the title above to access this website About: Lean is an improvement approach to improve flow and eliminate waste that was developed by Toyota. Lean is basically about getting the right things to the right place, at the right time, in the right quantities, while [...]
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LEAN Enterprise Research Centre Website Click on the title above to access this website About: What is LEAN thinking: The term ‘lean’ was popularised in the seminal book ‘The Machine that Changed the World’ , which clearly illustrated – for the first time – the significant performance gap between the Japanese and western automotive industries. [...]
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Designing Lean Healthcare Systems Website Click on the title above to access this website of resources, ideas, downloads and more . About: The Lean Enterprise Academy is a non-profit Academy (a company with no shares and limited by guarantee) established to develop knowledge of Lean Thinking and its implementation and to disseminate this knowledge through [...]
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Lean and Six Sigma: a practical guide for clinicians and managers, International Journal of Care Pathways 2010; 14 (1): 36-41 (March 2010) Sue Moos et al. Abstract: Conference Report, sorry no abstract available Lancashire Care staff can request the full-text of this paper, email: susan.jennings@lancashirecare.nhs.uk
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Suicidal Behaviour in Adolescence, Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, May 2010 Vol. 55, Iss. 5; pg. 271, 3 pgs Alan Apter Abstract: Psychological risk factors that have been the focus of recent attention include overgeneralized autobiographical memory associated with interpersonal relationships,12 deficits in problem solving,13 as well as high levels of impulsiveaggressiveness. 14 Additional potential precursors [...]
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Dementia quality standard: patient information NICE Click on the title to access this information Abstract: Dementia information for patients from NICE
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