title: Driving efficiency via a 'different' approach.
abstract: Paul Boocock, director of estates and facilities management at the South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, explains how he and Jonathan Gilmore, a director at not-for-profit healthcare sector improvement organisation, BIRCH, and the Collaborative Working Centre, with wide-ranging experience in the construction and EFM sectors, have worked with the Trust's estates and facilities management team to bring a "leaner" approach to its activities, in the process improving efficiencies and reducing waste at the Torbay Hospital.
authors.affiliation: South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, UK.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Boocock
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gilmore
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000458:organization & administration; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom