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OD, QI or both?
Matthew Mezey from the #Qcommunity has been begging me to write something on OD and QI, ever since we chatted about it at the Health Foundation annual reception last year. It has been something I have been thinking about for … Continue reading
Posted in Improvement, lean, Organisational development
Tagged improvement, improvement science, lean, QI, TQM
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Learning Lean
A friend of mine, published this diagram today on his Facebook wall. (I’m not sure where it is from or who developed it, but it seems to be linked to ‘Big Up the NHS’, apologies if I have that wrong). It compares … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare, Improvement, lean
Tagged Deming, healthcare, improvement, improvement science, lean, learning, patient safety
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Healthcare Systems Engineering
This is the second of two blogs about working as an engineer. Direct engineering technical skills can help in many areas of healthcare for example, in clinical engineering roles such as those in nuclear medicine and in medical physics treating cancer patients , in … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare, Improvement, lean
Tagged engineering, healthcare, improvement science, NHS
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PhD – Doctor of Philosophy…um didn’t think about that!
I have signed up to spend three years or thereabouts of my life in order to research healthcare quality. It is a big passion of mine, I think mankind deserves the best healthcare we can create and afford, and when … Continue reading
Posted in Epistemology
Tagged critical social science, doctorate, epistemology, improvement science, PhD, philosophy, transformation
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