Lean Healthcare Academy holds ‘Getting MORE for Less’ - Healthcare seminar
An oversubscribed Healthcare event held in Sheffield last Tuesday (Tues, May 25) introduced professionals from across the NHS to valuable cost and time saving techniques that don’t come at the expense of service delivery and quality.
An oversubscribed Healthcare event held in Sheffield last Tuesday (Tues, May 25) introduced professionals from across the NHS to valuable cost and time saving techniques that don’t come at the expense of service delivery and quality.
The free Healthcare seminar, 'Getting MORE for Less,' was held at The Source, Meadowhall, and was attended by 60 people from NHS Trusts and healthcare-related bodies across the country.
The free seminar was organised jointly by the Lean Healthcare Academy, leaders in the field of training, implementation and sustaining improvement activities across the whole health economy, and its sister e-learning organisation, the Healthcare e-Academy, which delivers clinical and non-clinical online training programmes to the NHS. Both are operating divisions of online training pioneer Virtual College of West Yorkshire.
Expert guest speakers were Dr Richard Pope, Director of Innovation and Research at Airedale NHS Trust who gave a well received talk on the benefits of Telehealth and how it can be implemented, and Ian Carruthers, Training and Education Manager at University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust who provided a thought provoking lesson on the cost and time savings brought through the adoption of e-Learning.
The event was aimed at NHS personnel who are tasked with service improvement and key financial responsibilities, including education leads, learning and development teams and transformation and reform teams.
Wendy Gauntley, Lean Healthcare Academy Manager said: "We are all operating in a more austere financial climate, cuts have already been made to the NHS and no doubt more cuts are to come. The NHS is under an ever-mounting strain to make budgets stretch further - to justify every single pound spent, yet at the same time create across-the-board cost savings without compromising on quality of patient care.”
“We run the Getting More for Less free seminars in order to bring people from across the vast NHS network together so they can share and learn from each other’s experiences and learn techniques that they can take away and start making improvements and savings to their Trust immediately.”
“Lean is all about delivering organisation-wide service improvement by shedding waste, streamlining and transforming operational efficiencies, and freeing up more time for NHS personnel to do the job they do best - caring for people in their care.”
The seminar looked at new ways of training, working and thinking that can help healthcare professionals use their budgets more effectively, without compromising quality and patient safety. It proved a huge success and delegates came away saying they had learned some precious lessons.
The ‘Getting MORE for Less’ free seminars will continue to be run across the country on a regular basis.
Full details of the 'Getting MORE for Less' free seminar and all presentations can be accessed at www.leanhealthcareacademy.co.uk