Going Lean: Health and the Toyota Way

In the third programme in the series, Dr Kevin Fong explores the concept of ‘lean’ in healthcare. He visits Toyota’s largest car assembly plant in the United States and discovers how the company’s legendary management philosophy – the Toyota Production System – is being implemented in hospitals, in an effort to improve patient care. Toyota’s philosophy of continuous improvement aims to increase quality and flow whilst decreasing cost. But whilst this may work well for the mass production of cars, can it really improve the care of individual patients?

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Going Lean: Health and the Toyota Way is an episode from The Truth About... by BBC.

This episode is 26:59 long.

This episode was published on Jul 25, 2016.

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