Lean Healthcare

About this course

Healthcare organisations balance patient safety, regulatory requirements, and capacity every day. This course translates Lean thinking into routines your teams can run on the ward, in theatres, and in outpatient pathways — without adding bureaucracy.

Who it's for

• Clinical and nursing leads improving flow and handovers
• Operations and quality managers in hospitals and clinics
• Multi-disciplinary improvement teams and project sponsors

What you'll take away

• ✓See value and waste in care pathways — not only on the shop floor metaphor
• ✓Use visual management and standard work where it supports safety and release time to care
• ✓Run structured problem-solving with frontline involvement
• ✓Align improvement work with capacity, triage, and patient experience

Core themes

• Patient flow and bottleneck thinking in acute and scheduled care
• 5S and workplace organisation in clinical and support areas
• Daily management, huddles, and escalation without meeting overload
• Metrics that matter: safety, waiting, and workload balance

How we work with you

• Case examples from care pathways (synthetic / anonymised)
• Exercises you can adapt to your hospital or network
• Optional: alignment with existing quality systems (e.g. ISO-oriented structures)