Lean healthcare. Wait watchers.
Lean thinking helps speed up a patient's journey and cut waste by reworking routine procedures. Trusts are starting to use the theory in practice, with one doubling day surgery capacity and another redesigning its diagnostics procedures. Wasted time does not just frustrate patients - it can kill them.
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D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom