Amnis have been asked by the Institute of Operations Management to establish a Healthcare Forum focused on supporting public/private healthcare, pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers.
At this stage, we expect it to go live in November of this year and are seeking content (including relevant papers, details of events and other information) which can be used to populate the site.
If you have material that you would like to submit for consideration, please email it to Ruth Bodman at ruthbodman@amnis.uk.com.

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Ben Bradshshaw MP (Minister for Health) has sent us the following quote about our 'Sustaining Lean Healthcare Programmes' book.

"Thank you for the opportunity to read your publication 'Sustaining Lean Healthcare Programmes (a practitical survival guide)'. I regard it as being a useful addition to the toolkit of advice and guidance to health bodies that wish to successfully develop service improvement plans using Lean techniques."

We are undertaking some additional research to further underpin our CRITICAL model of sustainable Lean. We were originally looking for up to 10 organisations and have already started with 8. We have now extended the offer to 15 organisations and are therefore looking for a further 7 organisations to participate in our research which simply consists of allowing up to 40 members of staff from the organisation completing a simple questionnaire and emailing it back to us.

We are currently working on the development of Leanpad for Healthcare that will enable Healthcare organisations to quickly document Current and Future States and then communicate them and gain feedback.

Having tested it recently with representatives from a Local Health Economy (including an SHA) it got a glowing feedback on its useability when compared to Visio and Powerpoint.....so watch this space!!

Having now signed up to TWITTER, the micro-blogging site, readers of this blog can follow the updates from Mark Eaton (author of Lean for Practitioners and Sustaining Lean Healthcare Programmes)....just click here!

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If you have read our new book 'Sustaining Lean Healthcare Programmes' or if you have worked with one of our Lean Experts you will have already come across our CRITICAL(tm) Model for Sustainable Lean. CRITICAL defines the top eight reasons why organisations claim their previous improvement programmes have failed to deliver the results they expected.

Have you ever noticed that people sometimes react in an unusual way to the things that you have said?

The message that is being sent is modified by recipients based on their emotions, their beliefs and even the environment in which they hear the message.

I was working with the NPSA (National Patient Safety Agency) earlier this week advising them on the introduction of Design into Patient Safety. Obviously, our focus was on Process Design and how effective processes can also be safer....and safer environments also more productive.

A new book 'Sustaining Lean Healthcare Programmes' is available to buy today from Amazon.

Written by Mark Eaton & Simon Phillips and published by Ecademy Press, the book is written is a very inviting style and contains no 'fat' - focusing purely on the key things to do to avoid your Lean Programme stalling!