London hospital cuts waiting lists with innovative system
London hospital cuts waiting lists with innovative system
Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital has slashed its elective backlog by running two operating theatres side by side
I find these articles interesting as it seems that non-manufacturing contexts rediscover manufacturing principles constantly
Your critical path includes surgeons, your surgeons are a bottleneck, having minimal but non-zero prepped patients available is an inventory buffer
Amdahl's Law from Computer Science and similar concepts would apply here as well. It seems sharing some of these concepts across domains would be useful in general.
Seems good for the happy path, but I wish they would have said something about their plans for if something goes wrong.
Like you already put patient B to sleep but suddenly something went wrong with Patient A.
Will the team continue with patient A and leave patient B to wake up (skip him)?
Is there a backup team and facilities to continue with patient B as scheduled?
There are counter measures but which way did they go?