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Lean resources

Bringing Lean to Life

Bringing Lean to Life

Bringing Lean to Life
"Bringing Lean to Life" provides a basic introduction and overview of Lean; the culture, principles and tools to understand, tackle and resolve issues within healthcare. It is not intended as a complete guide to implementing Lean as a management system.

Lean articles by Lesley Wright, Director, Diagnostics

A Million Quality Managers
Health Service Journal - January 2008

The Gold Standard
Health Service Journal - June 2008

Visual Control
Health Service Journal - April 2008

The Challenge of Lean Management
August 2007

Respect and Lean
HSJ - October 2008

Lean in Pathology
National Health Executive

Inventory
HSJ - October 2008

More Lean articles

Lean Thinking
Kate Sylvester, BSc MBA FRCOphth

A critical look at lean thinking in healthcare
T P Young and S I McClean

Lean thinking in healthcare: a realist review of the literature
P Mazzocato, C Savage, M Brommels, H Aronsson, J Thor