Lean in healthcare has continued to attract practitioner and research interest over the past
two decades yet lacks evidence of sustained application. This longitudinal case study …

Objective: This study's aim was to assess how various organisational designs affect Lean
interventions' success. Refinement of design and analytics contributes to the knowledge of …

The overarching aim of this thesis is to critically evaluate the implementation of Lean in NHS
Lothian, a National Health Service (NHS) Health Board in Scotland. Against challenging …

Lean is endorsed as policy in practice in the UK but the challenges and complexities
affecting Lean in healthcare are still to be adequately assessed. Through a qualitative single …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the barriers and enablers to lean
implementation as part of an imaging quality improvement programme from a socio-cultural …

The barriers to implement lean have been well researched and have generated consistent
results; this study identifies these as ostensible barriers. There is a dearth of research that …

The English National Health Service (NHS) represents an exemplary context within which to
examine the implementation of lean. Austere economic conditions, coupled with rising …

Healthcare organisations, especially in public sector, have been adopting Lean
management practices with increasing outcomes' evidences in several parts of the world …

While lean thinking has been used in healthcare for almost two decades, its efficacy has
been debated extensively by researchers and practitioners alike. This ongoing debate is …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how operations strategy and Lean
concepts can be applied within a healthcare organisation and the degree to which both …