Thanks for sharing your background and experience as a Production Engineer. It is impressive to know that you participated in the car industry and the IProdE. I was unaware of the VMIps or the VMI Consultants until now, but I looked them up online . It seems that they are related to veterinary medicine and animal health ? 

Not sure about animal health, it's certainly human health now. If you search on Amazon for Virginia Mason you will see their three books. All about delivering healthcare in their hospitals. I think that they have 11 and many more smaller clinics. I'll good stuff.

Ian, If you click on the illustration then click on 'Zoom in' top left of screen you will see a larger image.

Thanks Tom, very interesting. Virginia Mason is known for its patient-family partner program, which aims to improve health care quality and safety by involving patients and their families in various aspects of care. How common and effective is this approach in the NHS?

The NHS do put a lot of effort into this but it is not very effective in instigating improvements. The various schemes are not joined up nor related to specific NHS processes.

A new British standard for quality management in healthcare has just been published. BS ISO 7101:2023. If only the NHS would give it some consideration. I will continue to put pressure on the NHS to take an Engineer's view on Process Management, Quality Management and Safety Management. It would be great if the IET were to help.

What can be done to pressure the NHS to adopt the Engineers view ? Are you collaborating with others ? Maybe IHEEM.

Sorry about the slow response to your comments. Two things, first NHS Impact and second a new British Standard for Quality Management in healthcare, BS ISO 7101:2023, both are very interesting and could, with the right encouragement have synergy. Unfortunately because the IET leaders refuse to show any interest in this area of Technology I am leaving the IET. My efforts with the NHS and healthcare will continue though. The IET leaders consider that there is no interest in this aspect of healthcare within it's membership. I think that that is more to do with a lack of understanding of the issues and a lack of discussion available to members. If you are interested in continuing your interests I'm on twitter @thomasjohnrose and can be found on the Q Community website. I do communicate a lot with VMI.

Hi Tom,

Thank you for your message. I'm sorry to hear that you are leaving the IET due to their lack of interest in healthcare technology. I appreciate your efforts with the NHS and the new British Standard for Quality Management in healthcare. I agree that they are very interesting and could have a lot of potential.

I'm not on twitter, so I can't follow you there, but I would love to stay in touch with you and learn more about your work. How about the IHEEM membership if not already?
I hope you keep well and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

My email is t.rose.1@bham.ac.uk and my Q Community page URL is https://q.health.org.uk/community/directory/thomasjohnrose/ I'll have a look at IHEEM. It would be good to keep in touch.