ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT SECTION
meeting organised with the
SIX SIGMA STUDY GROUP
Six Sigma, the What and the How
Thursday 7th June, 1-5pm at the Society headquarters
12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX
(close to Barbican, Old Street and Moorgate stations on the Underground,
as shown on map at <http://www.rss.org.uk/pdf/Map%20to%20RSS.pdf> )
* Tony Bendell
( Managing Director of Services Ltd. and former Director of the University of Leicester Centre for Quality Excellence)
* Alan Harrison
( Director of Business Improvement / Global Lean Champion in the Clear Liquid Division of Weir Group PLC)
An overview of Six Sigma, an approach to quality improvement focused on understanding and reducing variation using statistical methods, will be given. Lean Thinking, pioneered by Toyota and now also applied in the service sector, removes activities that don't add value. Lean will be compared and contrasted with Six Sigma.
* Paul Muir and Barry Pullen (Barclays Wealth)
* Jill Long (West Sussex NHS Primary Care Trust)
* Mary Hickey (Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin)
Case studies of the successful application of Six Sigma to quality improvement will be presented.
Registration fees, including refreshments:
* £20 Students and Retired Fellows
* £24 CStats and GradStats
* £27 Fellows
* £50 Non-fellows
For a booking form contact [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> or visit www.rss.org.uk/events <http://www.rss.org.uk/events>
For further information please contact the poster of this message.
We'd be pleased if you could forward this message to anyone you think might be interested in attending.
Best Wishes
Robin
G Robin Henderson
Audit Coordinator
Scottish National Stroke Audit
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
0131 242 6934
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