Lean management in care 

Lean can also be used in healthcare management making processes more efficient and effective. Think about this for example to improve patient and client satisfaction, the optimizing schedules and Heyt optimizing the ratio primary tasks and secondary tasks from healthcare providers. So is a frequently heard 'complaint' from the caregivers that they spend a lot of time on secondary activities, as completing patient or client files, preparing reports and consultation orf Handover. The time spent on this, is at the expense of the primary task, which is to provide care. By using lean management here and thus analyze, Can it be checked whether this is a 'waste'? and can it be removed.  

For example, what does the whole process of nursing a patient look like? Are there steps in this process that a nurse takes that have no direct added value? Are there steps that can be arranged in a different way, for example by moving them to an employee? for whom this work more be a primary task than for the nurse? By looking at all processes in this way and eliminate any unnecessary steps, expires the process more efficient and effective, making it total process adds more value for both patients and healthcare workers and the healthcare institution. A result of a process improvement could be, for example, that there less time is becoming spent on the administrative burden and more time left for the provision of care, which means that more patients can be treated and also waitlijstand will decrease.  

By applying the lean philosophy, suggestions for improvements are not only brought forward from administrative level, but Is the it is precisely the intention that all employees think along and present their ideas for opportunities for improvement, off the balle employee on receipt up to and including the treated specialist and the care. By letting people put forward points for improvement for their own work, they get the possibility to improve their own work, wat will motivate them to commit to this.  

In order to continue to stimulate the use of lean management, it is important to to make results transparent. This is not only about the financial side, but also the perspective of the patient and the employee: what to see she from the results achieved through the use of lean manage? how you thethey results insightful can to make, do you read here.