Episode 2 – Cultural Change through Lean for Local Government
‘The staff said, ‘We’ve been wanting to do this for ages, but we’ve been stuck because of the process.’ And we said, let’s change the process; let’s remap the process; let’s look at it in a different way. And the staff came up with s ...
Episode 1 – Cultural Change through Lean for Local Government
Over the coming weeks Leading Edge Group will be releasing a series of podcasts highlighting the key success factors in developing a culture of continuous improvement in local government as well as the main challenges involved.
This week’s podca ...
Economic Evaluation Techniques
Recent emphasis in the field of health economics has been on the assessment of the cost-effectiveness of healthcare interventions and treatments. Health economics provides a set of economic evaluation methods to carry out such assessments. The four m ...
Benefits of Health Economics
‘The study of health economics will stimulate anyone who believes that seeking to improve human health is worth using up some of the world's scarce resources.’ - Stephen Heasell (Principal Lecturer in Economics, Nottingham Trent University)
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Health Economics for Healthcare Funders and Health Manufacturers
In part 3 of our blog series on Health Economics, we are looking into how both Healthcare Funders and Health Manufacturers use Health Economics in their decision-making processes.
Healthcare Funders
Public and private funders of healthcare us ...
Health Economics for Health Providers and Policy Makers
Following on from last week when we discussed what Health Economics is, we are now moving on to the who? With a range of stakeholders who would benefit from the principles of Health Economics, we are looking into 2 of the occupations that are most im ...
Why Lean is so important to Digitalisation – Please don’t do one without the other!
Companies need to understand that trying to embrace a new way of thinking and survive in the digital world will not succeed by adopting the same old approaches and processes – just changing the tools and systems you will succeed mantra! Therefore, ...
What is Health Economics?
‘In a system with limited resources, health professionals have a duty to establish not only that they are doing good, but that they are doing better than anything else that could be done with the same resources.’
Alan Williams (Professor of Heal ...
What Are The 7 Benefits of a Balanced Scorecard?
Successfully completing a Lean/Sigma programme is only the first step on the journey to success. To keep progress sustained, organizations must find ways to track performance over time.
Monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is a great way o ...