Quality Management

This area is so important in organizing the best use of resources.

This section in linked in with Quality Tools. Please select from the menu below for further reading:

Build To Order - BTO : In many respects medicine lost out on the stage of industrialisation and continues to try to deliver a bespoke service at huge cost to a dissatisfied customer base. Technology may actually be about to move us into the next stage.

The Concorde Fallacy : Humans as opposed to animals seem to be very reluctant to write off their previous efforts even in the face of overwhelming evidence that the project is going nowhere.

Reviews Of Quality Meetings :-

Thoughts on force field analysis : This is a tool used to try and understand the pressures that affect changing systems.

Thoughts on adverse events & errors : The current estimate of the cost of adverse events in hospitals is at present 2 Billion pounds per year.

Thoughts on targets in healthcare : Target setting has taken on a momentum of its own in recent years without always a lot of thought and reflection as to whether it is ‘a good thing’ and if it is being applied appropriately.