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| The use of the EFQM excellence model in health and social care | | Author(s) | Michael Perides |
| Journal title | Journal of Care Services Management, vol 1, no 2, January/March 2007 |
| Pages | pp 166-172 |
| Source | http://www.henrystewart.com |
| Keywords | Services ; Health services ; Management [care] ; Quality ; Standards of provision. |
| Annotation | The provision of health and social care no longer can be regarded as different from other enterprises. The increasing demands from articulate, well-informed user groups are forcing practitioners to look outside their traditional boundaries for tools and techniques to improve what they do. The commercial world has long understood that genuine and sustained improvement comes about through continually evaluating performance in relation to customer needs. To understand the ever-changing relationship between performance and customer needs, leading edge organisations have sought tools to enable them to identify areas of success and areas for improvement. Clearly, no one tool or technique can be regarded as the panacea for all ills. However, the intelligent use of management tools and techniques has enabled organisations to understand the needs of their customers better and thereby drive improvements in what they do and produce. The use of these tools in health and social care have been spasmodic and slow to grow. However, the concepts that underpin their use - lean thinking, whole systems thinking, balanced scorecard and the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) excellence model - are increasingly being explored by health and social care managers as the pressure to provide cost-effective, user-centred services increases. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070201208 A |
| Classmark | I: L: QA: 59: 583 |
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