18 weeks and counting...
Julian Winn at WCI Consulting discuss the use of Lean Thinking to achieve the 18 week patient pathway
One of the many challenges that healthcare manager’s face is getting patients seen, assessed and treated as soon as possible; and in recent years there has been increasing focus, quite rightly, on reducing waiting times. First there was the maximum 4 hour wait in Accident & Emergency, then a critical look at the waiting times for cancer care and now a broader view that patients should not wait any longer than 18 weeks from the point of referral to the point of treatment – the so called Referral to Treatment Time (RTT).
To meet the 18 week RTT Acute Trusts may need to radically improve their patient pathways. An impressive way to modify the pathways lies in the application of Lean Thinking.
Lean organisations display 4 major traits.
They provide value
They eliminate waste
They make radical changes
They strive for continuous incremental improvement
To download the White Paper on 18 week RTT click on the pdf link below:
18 weeks and counting...