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  • Emma Adams posted an update in the group Lean Healthcare 2 years, 6 months ago

    Hi all,
    In case anyone is interested, there is a session being held by the Deming Alliance on Leadership in healthcare:
    Face-to-Face Meeting – Leadership in Healthcare – Tuesday 9th November 2021
    Our face-to-face meetings at Nettle Hill will resume on Tuesday 9 November 09:30-16:30 – we hope that you will be able to attend. The theme for the day is Leadership in Healthcare. There are two sessions:

    Morning session: The Art of Rock-IT Science. Surgeon and systems coach Simon Dodds returns to share recent insights from his work applying systems engineering aka to improve management in healthcare settings. Alongside the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic caused to the NHS there were also great opportunities to apply fresh thinking. This half-day session leads into a second session on 29 March so please put that into your diaries. Simon was the creator of the DriveThruCare patient self-referral system (2021) and the Systems Engineer for the COVID Referral Centre installed in record time in the National Exhibition Centre car park in 2020.
    Afternoon session: The virtues and challenges of trusting your workforce to do the right thing. We welcome Paul Jansen who is both new to the Alliance and relatively new to Deming. Paul will be sharing some of his thoughts and experiences of applying self-management to healthcare settings in a session where we will explore the “virtues and challenges of trusting your workforce to do the right thing”. Paul was instrumental in bringing the famously successful Dutch Buurtzorg model to the UK healthcare system, and leads the Reinventing Work – Cambridge practitioner group. As you will see there are many parallels between the Buurtzorg approach and Deming’s philosophy, not least of which is the emphasis on “joy in work”.
    This promises to be a rousing return to what we have missed so much during the lockdowns, the opportunity to challenge the effectiveness of the status quo, to work together and to compare notes in friendly dialogue.

    If you are able to attend, please advise Brian Leeming as soon as possible, on: brianwleeming@gmail.com

    If you aren’t a member of the Alliance (i.e. pay meeting-by-meeting rather than annual subscription) we will invoice you for this meeting (£55) as soon as you register to attend. You may change to becoming a Member at any time during the year by going to our website at: https://www.demingalliance.org/membership/application/