These last weeks, the number of COVID-19 patients that needed hospital care has risen exponentially again, flooding the wards and intensive care units. Many of the “regular” procedures have been cancelled and healthcare professionals’ well deserved days off have been revoked. Already, 10-20% of them are showing signs of burn-out.* This made me think … […]

Many articles or LinkedIn post about problems in healthcare, for example rising costs or underpaid nurses, provoke reactions about (too many, “expensive”) managers. “Just remove two layers of management”, someone wrote, for example. “Sounds very ‘lean’ to me”, I hear people shouting in the back of my mind 😉 Apparently there are large groups of […]