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Category Archives: Quality Improvement
The Quality vs Price Dilemma
“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten” Continue reading
What’s the Remedy for Inefficiency?
In 2014 the NHS was allocated a budget of £95.6 billion. By any standards that is an eye watering sum. I can’t help thinking that SHOULD be enough. If we imagine for a moment that the UK had no NHS and decided to establish one tomorrow, and its budget was to be £95 billion – would anybody in their right mind design it to look like the one that has evolved? I very much doubt it Continue reading
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Tagged effectiveness, efficiency, inefficiency, nhs inefficiency, quality management, shaun sayers
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Quality and efficiency
This article explains the term efficiency and describes exactly why it is part of every quality professionals remit Continue reading
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Tagged effectiveness, efficiency, ISO 9000, ISO 9001, quality management, tqm
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The real benefits of ISO 9001 certification
ISO 9001, that part of the ISO 9000 series that defines the quality management system requirements, clearly means many things to many people. There are certainly people with a vested interest in promoting its virtues and (sometimes) overstating its merits in the process. There are also some very vociferous opponents, including some career critics who have made a good living from disparaging it. But let’s try to be objective and think things through clearly Continue reading
Is a General Approach to Quality Management Still Possible?
There may have been a time when life and markets were simpler and less complex, so at one point a general approach might have been more feasible, but I am starting to think those days are gone. Maybe long gone, and the sooner we realise that, the sooner we can stop looking for something that can never exist and point ourselves at a more practical revised approach. Continue reading
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