What are the chances of the HSE, its process designers or product and service suppliers getting to Six Sigma standards of excellence. For those unfamiliar with it, the widely accepted definition of a Six Sigma process is a process that produces 3.4 Defective Parts (or non-conforming outcomes) per Million Opportunities or DPMO.
Six Sigma aims to deliver yields of 99.99966% unlike the latest HSE debacle with the PPE which we are told produced a yield of 65%, no where near good enough for a modern healthcare organisation. Excuses like the HSE and its employees are operating under pressure is not a reason for failure to deliver excellence, it is merely a very poor excuse. Doing routine work in a normal environment is just that, routine, stress free, repetitive, day-to-day operations. Operating to a standard of excellence in a non-routine environment is called managing.
Any chance any of their director of this, manager of that, co-ordinator of something amorphous and meaningless that can't be measured will ever get to sigma seven levels of delivery? Based on their own performance measures using the PPE numbers their DPMO is somewhere between 691,462 and 308,538; Sigma Six would be 3.4 and sigma seven 0.019.
No need to apologise. Although I know it has it's critics in very large organisation and in certain types of operations, the focus on processes and outcomes is relevant here.Im sorry what?
Its not, as I detailed in my comment. Its, at best, a poor understanding of how it would apply in this case. At worst, its an attempt to spread misinformationSix Sigma is in use in healthcare organisations world-wide and indeed in supply-chain process and delivered product quality improvement. Whether that's LEAN Six Sigma or Six Sigma I think is a decent topic for debate
No need to apologise. Although I know it has it's critics in very large organisation and in certain types of operations, the focus on processes and outcomes is relevant here.
It is used. Here's a good article on the topic, though I suspect that you are talking about the specifics of the recent shipment of PPE and mathepac is talking about our healthcare industry generally.Its not, as I detailed in my comment. Its, at best, a poor understanding of how it would apply in this case. At worst, its an attempt to spread misinformation
Oh ya, lean, six sigma has applications in healthcare undoubtedly. Mathepac was applying things to this order of PPE that make no sense though.It is used. Here's a good article on the topic, though I suspect that you are talking about the specifics of the recent shipment of PPE and mathepac is talking about our healthcare industry generally.
If you want to see chaotic and costly healthcare spend a few hours in Naas Hospital A&E. Fawlty Towers is alive and well.
I think he was talking about the Health Service in general. That's certainly what I took from his comments.Oh ya, lean, six sigma has applications in healthcare undoubtedly. Mathepac was applying things to this order of PPE that make no sense though.
Sterile PPE gets unboxed and worked on in a non-sterile environment, repackaged and unboxed again to be used in a sterile environment. Or will all the unboxing, re-work and repackaging be done in a certified clean-room or sterile environment by people who are free of the virus? Great idea but has anyone thought this through any more carefully than they did the initial mess-up?Cork fabric company to alter some of HSE's shipment of personal protective equipment to make it suitable for use...
We spend €21 billion a year on healthcare in Ireland, 12% of our GNI. A half decent Six Sigma/LEAN programme would, in my opinion, save thousands of lives and billions of Euro.
Put the obese staff on diets.Gowns are a significant issue. They will be tight on them in some places.
There are LEAN programmes within the health service and some have been very successful but they are local and ad hoc and completely dependent on whether the local Union brethren allow them to happen.How do you know that LEAN/Six Sigma programmes are not implemented in the Irish health service?
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