Using LEAN to lead change – public seminar
This intensive seminar teaches a ‘whole of system’ strategic change framework that redresses the key pressures in modern healthcare and equips you to build a culture of continuous improvement.
After attending ‘Using LEAN to lead change’ participants walk away with both the knowledge and skills to lead healthcare environments in direct, rapid and continuous advances in quality, safety and care, improving flow and reducing waste. Invest a day in yourself and contribute more for years to your organization.
If you want to make a difference to the quality, safety and care delivered by your organization and eliminate waste to free the resources to do it, this workshop is designed for you.
If you are an executive leading people in continuous improvement, this workshop is designed for you.
If you are interested in the latest application of ‘lean thinking’ as an effective strategy for transforming healthcare, this workshop is designed for you.
About Lean Healthcare Consultants
Lean Healthcare consultants have assisted healthcare organizations throughout Australia and New Zealand in developing and applying ‘lean thinking’ to healthcare. Our work extends across emergency departments and wards through to primary and community care. Our experience includes specialist streams such as oncology, diabetes, chest pain, respiratory, complex medical patients, theatres, orthopedics, pathology, radiology, pharmacy, outpatients, oral health and aged care. We also have extensive experience working across streams such as with, corporate services, acute to subacute, ED to Ward and Discharge to community / GP.
Course leader, Pieter Walker, currently Director of Lean Healthcare Consultants, also works extensively with the Health Roundtable in Australia and New Zealand and has worked internationally. From his origins in psychology and healthcare management, he has been in healthcare executives for 19 years, the last 5 with ‘lean thinking’ for healthcare. All this experience is captured in this formal workshop offered in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. The workshop provides the very latest information from around the world in how lean thinking is being applied to healthcare. This is a workshop you will not want to miss.
Who will benefit? 
- Directors of Nursing looking to stimulate improvement and encourage team work
- Executives looking to refresh and update their LEAN skills
- Healthcare organization administrators and managers
- Government department leaders
- Department and service leaders
- Clinicians with change management responsibility
- Newly appointed service or department managers looking for change techniques
How will you benefit? 
- Gain confidence in the certainty of improvement provided by ‘lean thinking’ for healthcare
- Learn how to build a whole of organisation approach to LEAN
- Learn how to sustain changes in the long term
- More confidently and strategically map your change program
- Better engage colleagues and staff in the use of ‘lean thinking’ for healthcare
- Understand how to quantify the benefits of ‘lean thinking’ changes
- Implement an effective ‘lean thinking’ strategy
- Demystify preconceptions of what ‘lean thinking’ can and cannot do
Event details
| Melbourne 17 May 2010 | 1/440 Collins St Melbourne VIC 3000 |
| Sydney 24 May 2010 | 200 George Street Sydney NSW 2000 |
| Brisbane 31 May 2010 | 288 Edward Street Brisbane QLD 4000 |
Refreshments on arrival, 8.45am for 9am start to 4.30pm
You can request your booking by emailing us. Alternatively, queries can be directed to Lean Healthcare Consultants on 03 9878 0266
Event cost
| Professional development course fee incl. GST | |
| Non-subscribers to “Lean for Healthcare”
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$550 |
| Subscribers to our Newsletter “Lean for Healthcare” | $440 |
| Second executive from the same organization as a subscriber | $220 |
| Complimentary registrations(Up to 3 members of an organization which held a War on Waste Day before 30 April 2010) | $0 |
Cancellation policy:
Cancellations are to be received in writing no later than seven (7) clear working days prior to the workshop for a refund of 50% of the fee to be processed.
Please book via telephone with Tamara Obadage at Lean Healthcare Consultants on 03 9878 0266 to arrange your booking or payment.
Event timetable
| 8.45 – 9.00 | Registration & refreshments |
| 9.00 – 9.45 | Overview of the take up of ‘lean thinking’ by healthcare around the worldAustralia, US, Europe and Asia. |
| 9.45 – 10.30 | Getting Traction – the lean tools and projects that effect early wins and drive the change momentum
Identify and take out the major road blocks and issues – the application of 8 Wastes & 5S ? |
| 10.30 – 10.45 | Break |
| 10.45 – 12.15 | Tackling the bigger issues, including change and the cost to change
Balancing change and the cost to change |
| 12.15 – 12.30 | Q&A |
| 12.30 – 1.15 | Lunch |
| 1.15 – 2.45 | Case Studies in Lean for Healthcare
Applying the advanced tools – toward error proofing, quick change-over for theatres and departmental transfers |
| 2.45 – 3.15 | Leading Lean
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| 3.15 – 3.30 | Break |
| 3.30 – 4:15 | Lean as Strategy – sustaining the change
What are the key steps to success? – program design |
| 4.15 – 4.30 | Q&A |
| 4.30 | Close |
You can request your booking by emailing us Alternatively, queries can be directed to Lean Healthcare Consultants on 03 9878 0266