The Health Roundtable's Lean Healthcare Program is now in its third year, with over 100 graduates at over a dozen member health services.  In 2008, we will be conducting three programs, each lasting about three months:

Program 1 Sydney      21 / 22 February, 10 / 11 April, 28 May

Program 2 Sydney      29 / 30 May, 17 / 18 July, 27 August

Program 3 Sydney      28 / 29 August, 9 / 10 October, 19 November

In addition, we offer in-house programs to health services that want to train larger numbers of staff.  Please contact us for more information about these.

Here are status reports on the projects that recent participants in the Lean Healthcare Program have provided:

 

 

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Status Reports

Canterbury 1

Project: 80% of triage two chest pain patients should be seen within ten minutes

To see A3 Storyboard

 

Canterbury 2
Project: Reduce the time for Neurology patients to be processed through Radiology

Capital & Coast

Project: Reduce the time for Patients to receive notification of Diabetes OPD appointment Status by 20% by the end of July 07

To see A3 Storyboard

 

Health Waikato

Project

: Decrease ALOS of T&A by 50% to 0.33 days

To see A3 Storyboard

 

Counties Manukau

Project: To lower Occupancy and the use of the corridor space in EC to <6 hrs for all general surgery patients by June 07

To see A3 Storyboard

 

Waitemata

Project: Reduce to zero the time that patients spend waiting for their relatives to collect them

To see A3 Storyboard

 

Auckland Pathology Consortium

Project: Reduce haematology and biochemistry specimen turnaround time from ordering to reporting by 20% by June 2007 for general medical inpatients

To see A3 Storyboard

 

 

Sir Charles Gairdner

Project:  To achieve 50% of ward G52 discharges to home prior to 10 am

To see A3 Storyboard

Northern Territory Health

Project:  To improve process for referring community patients to specialists

To see Presentation

 

 

Mater Brisbane

Project:  To ensure at least 80% of women undergo Elective Caesarean at their scheduled time

To see Value Stream Map

Our Lean Teams often are looking for ways to improve information flow within their hospitals.

This is an example of a Google Document Form, which can be provided to all hospital users on your website, to collect information from staff about incidents.  This form can be embedded on the hospital's website, and all reports are stored in a google spreadsheet that can be accessed by selected people within the organisation.  (It took 20 minutes to set up an implement world wide!)