In this episode, I am in conversation with Brad Mellor. Brad is head of quality improvement for Mid Yorks Hospital Trust and has been since 2021.
Brad is a Chartered Manufacturing System Engineer, a qualified teacher and has an MSc in Lean Enterprise. He first became involved in quality improvement when working in engineering and manufacturing with automotive manufacturers back in the 1990’s and was involved in the Rover 75 car production line. He completed formal lean training back in 2001 whilst at Hepworth Building Products where in his role as Project
Manager led QI projects across 4 UK sites and in 2003 implemented the TotalProductive Maintenance program for Haribo.
In 2004, Brad left manufacturing and trained as a secondary school teacher where he also became involved in launching new government initiatives focused on improving the quality of vocational provision. Bradley became a Director of engineering and assistant head at a technical college and guest lectured on an MSc at Leeds Beckitt University on the application of lean. At the end of 2018, Brad left his role and was accepted on a 2-year part-time executive study tour where he traveled to Shingo award-winning sites across Europe as part of his MSc in Lean Enterprise where he specialised in improvement science in healthcare. Bradley started at Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust in February 2021 as Head of the KaizenPromotion Office and since then has worked with Virginia Mason Institute to implement a lean daily management system.

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