Healthcare professionals learn how to get more for their money
Lean Seminar well received by NHS delegates - Healthcare professionals in the NHS learned valuable lessons about how to generate savings, without it coming at the expense of service delivery and quality, at a 'sell-out' seminar in Sheffield.
Healthcare professionals in the NHS learned valuable lessons about how to generate savings, without it coming at the expense of service delivery and quality, at a 'sell-out' seminar in Sheffield. (Thus, March 4)
The fully subscribed event, 'Getting More for Less,' was staged at The Source, Meadowhall, and was attended by 80 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 Ilkley, West Yorkshire.
Keynote speakers were Darren Mills, lead IT trainer and e-learning lead with South Tyneside NHS Primary Care Trust, Andrew Ruck, managing director of Health Systems Consultants, Jacqueline Morton, head of reform at Southern Health and Social Care Trust in Northern Ireland, and Janice McNally, business development manager with Care Services Direct at NHS Barnsley.
The event targeted NHS personnel with key financial responsibilities, including education leads, learning and development, service improvement, transformation and reform teams.
Judith Clarkson, Virtual College's divisional director of academies, said: "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.
"It is a long, hard, uphill struggle. 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 resounding success and delegates came away saying they had learned some precious lessons. We plan to repeat the exercise in other parts of the country."
Full details of the 'Getting More for Less' seminar and all presentations can be accessed at www.leanhealthcareacademy.co.uk