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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 ...

By leigroupadmin|2021-03-25T10:14:30+00:00March 25th, 2021|Podcast|

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 ...

By leigroupadmin|2021-03-25T10:21:23+00:00March 25th, 2021|Podcast|

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 ...

By leigroupadmin|2021-02-22T16:01:44+00:00February 22nd, 2021|Healthcare, Uncategorised|

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) ...

By leigroupadmin|2021-02-15T15:43:19+00:00February 15th, 2021|Uncategorised|

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 ...

By leigroupadmin|2021-02-01T15:16:24+00:00February 1st, 2021|Healthcare, Healthcare & Community|

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 ...

By leigroupadmin|2021-01-25T14:42:27+00:00January 25th, 2021|Healthcare, Healthcare & Community|

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, ...

By leigroupadmin|2021-01-15T12:35:15+00:00January 15th, 2021|Business Transformation, Continuous Improvement, Lean Digital, Lean Digitalisation, Lean Transformation|

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 ...

By leigroupadmin|2020-12-01T15:39:56+00:00December 1st, 2020|Uncategorised|

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 ...

By leigroupadmin|2020-11-09T11:21:33+00:00November 6th, 2020|Uncategorised|

Managing Lean/6Sigma Projects in a GMP Environment

All industries have their own regulations and rules to follow. Companies in the Pharmaceutical industry are required to adhere to current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP), Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) and Code of Federal Regulations (CFR); In t ...

By leigroupadmin|2020-11-09T11:23:39+00:00November 6th, 2020|Continuous Improvement, Healthcare, Lean|

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