London hospital cuts waiting lists with innovative system

McKay, 6 months ago

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?

kux, 6 months ago

Honestly expected to roll my eyes at the article (especially as it's from the times) but this looks like a great initiative and Kariem El-Boghdadly who designed it, from an admittedly brief search for him, seems to know his onions. Not bad at all

https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/our-consultants/kariem-el-boghdadly

incogtino, 6 months ago

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

taladar, 6 months ago

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.