Let’s explore the waste walk exercise quickly, try to understand its simplicity and see how can it help boost operational efficiency across the care facility. In an industry where we are so much concerned about the manpower crunch, cost, affordability and patient safety, somewhere we underestimate the benefits of eliminating waste from our operational processes and the impact it can have on the entire system. Waste is a huge issue in the modern healthcare system and there is an estimated 30–60% of the wasteful activities happening in hospitals that are of absolutely no value to the providers, the patients and the system as a whole. With these kinds of uncertainty and risk associated with the healthcare industry, the health leaders often face challenge to find solutions for implementing cost-effective programs for the operational efficiency and to reduce the burden on everyone. The chaotic work environment significantly increases the chance of harm to the patients too. Wasteful processes in the system often forces healthcare professionals to extended working hours, overruns and fatigue. It’s very unfair of the system when the clinical professionals, have to invest the majority of their time doing a non-clinical job in a hospital. Waste is universal and is in every process and in every industry, but when the same waste is seen on the hospital floors, then it has a much bigger impact than the usual ones.
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