TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baker, Marc
AU  - Taylor, Ian
AU  - Mitchell, Alan
TI  - Making hospitals work : how to improve patient care while saving everyone's time and hospitals' resources
SN  - 0955147328
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Ross-on-Wye
PB  - Lean Enterprise Academy
KW  - EFFICIENCY
KW  - HOSPITALS, organization and administration
KW  - ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
KW  - ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION
KW  - QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE
KW  - TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT
N2  - Includes bibliographical references; For the first time Making Hospitals Work provides a practical roadmap for healthcare leaders seeking to create truly lean hospitals. It outlines a clear framework for focusing improvement activities on the most important challenges facing each hospital. It uses the same evidence based, scientific method as clinicians use to diagnose and treat medical problems to analyse and redesign the core emergency and elective patient journeys from arrival to discharge. It opens everyone's eyes to the big win-win-win opportunities to eliminate unnecessary waiting time for patients, to synchronise activities so clinical staff can spend more time caring for patients and to free up capacity by reducing length of stay and cut the overtime and agency budget. It also introduces the key new role of the value stream manager in gaining agreement on what needs to be done by whom in every department across the hospital. Every step described in Making Hospitals Work has been tried and tested in the three years' action research that led to this workbook. It is the critical breakthrough to take the next steps on the lean healthcare journey
ER  -