24th - 26th February 2009
Amnis are delighted to announce the dates for our next Accelerated Lean Skills Programme that is approved by the Institute of Healthcare Management (IHM) for CPD Recognition.
 
Over the last year over 350 people have benefited from this highly practical programme that delivers just what it says on the tin - accelerated Lean skills for your first events.
 

Amnis is delighted to announce that Leanpad, the Lean Mapping Software created by our partners at Process Master with our support, has been award 'Project of the Year' in the Irish IT Innovation Awards (http://www.inspiredawards.com/).

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.

Please feel free to download our October Newsletter from the following link: www.downloads.amnis.uk.com/AmnisOct.pdf.
If you would like to receive this regularly, please sign up from the link on our website at www.amnis.uk.com.

Amnis's Mark Eaton spoke at the Lean & Six Sigma in Primary Care Conference earlier this week and it has already added two new PCT clients to our growing client list. This informative and useful session generated lots of discussion, with Mark's presentation generating some interesting testimonials including:
 

For some of our clients you will know that we have been ably supported by Susan Williams (former CEO of the NHS National Patient Safety Agency) in a number of our projects.
 
As we go from strength to strength we have been looking to expand our management team even further and in addition to continuing to work with Susan on strategically important projects, she will also be joining the management team as a Non-Exec Director.
 
The rest of the Management Team are delighted by her decision and look forward to a long and produtive relationship with Susan.

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."

Well, it has been a busy few weeks and we were reflecting on all the things that had happened and came up with the following summary for what has happened in the last three weeks:

 

1 New Book Signed Off - Lean for Practitioners

2 New Partners - Amtec & Process Master

3 New Tenders Submitted - 1 Mental Health, 1 PCT and 1 Acute Trust

Further Developments with Process Master 

Further to forming our partnership with Process Master that we announced a couple of weeks ago we will shortly be launching our 'Lean Pad for Healthcare' process mapping software. A sample shot is shown below using a pre-release version of the software. It was created by a Service Improvement Manager within an Acute Trust in 20 minutes (following 5 minutes of training):

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Several times over the last three weeks I have been involved in Lean Projects where staff have mentioned how they do not like the term 'Lean' as it has (as many will already know) the wrong connotation.

In chatting with Les Pyle (Amnis's Chairman) he suggested that if this was the case and the word was the wrong word (but the approach was the right approach) then maybe you needed to change the word. His suggestion was to use the term LITHE(tm) (Lean in the Health Environment)........