The Field Guide to Rapid Process Improvement Workshops in Healthcare

Applying Lean to Improve Quality and Patient Experience

Hugo Van Woerden author Cameron Stark author Gavin Hookway author Gill McVicar author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:11th Oct '23

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The Field Guide to Rapid Process Improvement Workshops in Healthcare cover

This book takes the reader through the process to plan, deliver, and follow-up a weeklong Lean Quality Improvement event, usually termed a ‘Rapid Improvement Event’ or ‘Rapid Process Improvement Workshop (RPIW).’ Drawing on the experience of conducting over 100 of these workshops, the book gives readers the information to plan and run their own event. It describes how RPIWs fit in to wider improvement processes and how the reader can maximize these processes in their own organization.

These weeklong improvement events are popular in health and social care, but there are no textbooks available to support them. There are several books that describe the use of shorter Kaizen events in health care, but none that describe the process of delivering weeklong events. The events have a rhythm specific to the one-week format, and the book seeks to help people to make use of best practice and to avoid common problems.

Based on the experiences of the authors, this book includes an introduction to Lean concepts linked to the relevant part of the process description; examples and templates of forms that can be used in workshops; and photographs of actual events.

ISBN: 9780367074357

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 880g

120 pages