Nigel Coles
Quality Manager West Midlands Regional Genetics Laboratory
Birmingham Women\'s and Children\'s NHS Foundation Trust
England - West Midlands
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Nigel Coles posted a new activity comment 1 week ago
I learnt this week that ISO15189 Quality and Competence in Medical Laboratories is not a classed as a management standard by ISO so doesn’t comply with Annex SL nor are there any plans for it to do so. However, it is based on ISO9001 and ISO17025 which apparently are management systems. All feels a bit odd.
Nigel
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Nigel Coles posted a new activity comment 3 months, 3 weeks ago
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Nigel Coles posted a new activity comment 3 months, 3 weeks ago
My understanding is that the latest edition of Juran Quality handbook is the 7th Edition. which costs well over £100. The 6th Ed is still over £150 on Amazon
The 5th Edition is free to download from the web for most academic and NHS organisations, or you can buy a copy for about £10 second hand from ebay, 4th Edition is less than a £5.
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Nigel Coles commented on the document An Integrated Quality and Patient Safety Management System – BS ISO 7101:2023 in the group Philosophy and ethics for health care improvement 4 months, 1 week ago
Thanks Tom , this is an excellent diagram and thought promoting. Certainly a refresh of my understanding of QMSs and useful for auditing purposes. It will be useful for training people in healthcare quality management, although like Hilda I think I need to study the detail a bit more.
Could I have permission share the document within Pathology…Read more-
I have authorisation from BSI to publish the diagram so I’m sure it will be ok for you to share it. Most of the text is taken directly from the standard. I don’t think that any copyright protection is required. If you get any feedback from the people that you share it with I’d love to see it. I could add some more detail to the diagram. On Monday…Read more
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Nigel Coles posted a new activity comment 10 months ago
I wasn’t suggesting that a Fiat 500 is a better or less quality car than a Bentley; and from a car satisfaction survey from a few years ago it suggested that the Fiat was the better car. I’ve done a number of training sessions in Quality Management over the years and have asked the question which is the better quality car, a Fiat or a Bentley,…Read more
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Nigel Coles posted a new activity comment 10 months ago
A Quality management system (QMS) is a management system that manages for quality. Its based on a governance system of polices, processes and procedures (3Ps), that ensures that the service is planned on the basis of a defined quality. It seeks assurances of compliances against the 3Ps and seeks to address the risks of non-compliance. Continuous…Read more
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A grand explanation Nigel, Thanks.
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“A QMS should be capable of producing a Fiat 500 as well as a Bentley Continental, whilst QI is trying to create the Bentley from the baseline of a Fiat500.”
Of course that has the assumption that the Bentley Continental is a higher ‘quality’ vehicle to the Fiat 500.
If I were driving them down narrow Italian streets one would likely be of higher…Read more
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Nigel Coles posted a new activity comment 1 year, 1 month ago
Absolutely agree with you John, but QI is so embedded in the NHS trying to change the understanding of QM is very difficult and slow.
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Thanks Nigel. You make a very true point. More people a starting to understand Quality Management and the limitations of QI as it is currently structured.
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Nigel Coles posted a new activity comment 1 year, 3 months ago
ISO30401 Knowledge Management standards may be? I used to have access to a copy but unfortunately not anymore so can’t check, but it sounds like something from there.
Nigel
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Thanks Nigel. Wrong answer. I’ll get hold of a copy and check though. I’ll keep you updated.
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I agree that the 4th or 5th edition contain great detail and are certainly good enough to learn all you need to know to understand quality management. I still use my 4th edition. There is lots for the NHS to learn before being able to design a management system. Annex SL and associated literature in combination with Juran’s and Deming’s books are…Read more
Is there a particular website you can get the 5th edition from (if you are NHS)?
The 4th edition is well worth the cost. A hard copy is much better than an on line version or .pdf
For ythe 5th ed try
https://www.academia.edu/13926688/Juran?bulkDownload=thisPaper-topRelated-sameAuthor-citingThis-citedByThis-secondOrderCitations&from=cover_page