Case Studies

Cutting Waste in Health Care

In a recent health care project, System 21 consultants discovered surgeons using 18 pints of blood to perform an operation that for some colleagues only required three pints of blood!
This is a tiny example of the waste reduction and best practice development work that System 21 has performed in mainland European hospitals and for National Health Trusts in Britain.

Projects have focussed on improving planning and resource allocation. Stock management of vital supplies, such as blood, pharmaceuticals and dressings, is critical. Appropriate methods of change have been applied, improving, among others, the dissemination of information throughout the hospital.

These should be issues that concern all hospital managers regardless of the source of health care funding. System 21 projects suggest, however, that it is mainland European hospitals, generally run as profit making businesses, that recognise most quickly the benefits of our approach

 

 

 

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