What we do

Lean Healthcare Consultants help you adopt and implement Lean thinking specifically and exclusively in healthcare environments.

We advise, customize, train and coach.

Hospitals: Clinical flows, ED, Theatre, Wards, Outpatients and Treatment streams	Health Executives and Future Leaders	Diagnostic Services: Pharmacy, Radiology, Pathology	Discipline Specific Services: Nursing Medical Allied Health	Primary, Community & Aged Care	Non-clinical services: Corporate, Food, Logistics, HR, Travel, Administration

Lean Healthcare Consultants will:

1. Advise you on the basis of our expert knowledge of Lean thinking, of healthcare and of the successful application of lean thinking to healthcare, to help you transform your organization.
2. Customise program design to the current experience, expectations and situation of your organization today.
3. Train you and your organization via customized adaptations of proven programs, so your experience of us as well as of Lean thinking for healthcare is high quality, flows easily and avoids waste.
4. Coach you and your people to become the leaders and drivers of Lean thinking including, to the extent you wish, as internal trainers to your organization.

Specifically, we offer the following core programs customized to your specific requirements (We are also able to offer custom designed programs for health departments, corporate healthcare environments and multi-site state, national and international healthcare groups). Programs are content rich and efficient learning environments but also fun. We utilize more than 200 healthcare specific case studies. Program design is structured to embed sustained learning and sustained change. See the testimonials to the bottom right of the screen for examples of participant feedback from programs run by our consultants.

 

	Lean for Government Targets / Initiatives Use lean think for *4 Hr Rule *Activity Based Funding *Outpatients *Wait lists *Operating Theatre *Length of Stay
	Lean as Strategy – Executive Management Workshop – Learn how to implement lean enterprise wide with long term sustainability & develop an A3 Strategic Plan
	Discipline Specific Workshops – Customized lean sessions for Medicine, Nursing, Allied Health, Corporate Services, , Pharmacy, Radiology, Wards / Depts etc
	Developing Efficient Business Processes – Spend less time on emails and searching for files. Halve your meeting times with 22 minute meetings
	War on Waste Day – Backyard Blitz for Health Services – Improvements in a day
	Lean Healthcare Workshop Program – Enterprise Wide Designed for 20-30 project teams from across clinical and non clinical areas to improve efficiencies & patient flow and drive out waste
	LHC – Standard Operating Procedures & Checklist (lessons from aviation) Workshops Use aviation principles to improve the delivery of healthcare through the development of SOPs, Checklist and Briefings
	Leadership & Managing Change Program – Understand your Emotional Intelligence and how it impacts on Leadership & Change Management. Hear the latest research and understand the Neuroscience of Change.
	Conference Keynotes – Lean thinking, healthcare, strategy and culture

Lean Healthcare Consultants’ methodology emphasizes the role of experiential learning in adult professional environments and extensively uses real improvement projects and project teams. At the same time, incorporated into every program is a sense of enjoyment, entertainment and interaction.

Our customized training and coaching delivers immediate gains. We help you build a culture of successful problem solving & continuous improvement and move progressively to the more challenging, collaborative and system wide improvements. We do this offering technical help, training and coaching, suited to an adult learning environment. We simultaneously:

1. Support improving the quality and safety of patient care and

2. Balance program priorities and results delivery within resource limitations

Lean Healthcare Consultants has a particular methodology with ‘lean thinking’ at its core to make this possible.

1. Our programs have grown up in healthcare – not manufacturing – so they are more easily understood and adopted in healthcare environments.

2. Our programs combine learning, teaching, coaching, entertainment, caring and commerce in a carefully crafted balance.

3. Our programs target strategic priorities – we will work with you to shape and customize to achieve optimum value for you.