International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 22 Issue 4

An application of simulation to analyse resource sharing among health‐care organisations

Federico Pasin, Marie‐Hélène Jobin, Jean‐François Cordeau

In the field of inventory management, it is a well‐known fact that centralisation, by sharing the risk between several entities, helps reduce the inventory required to provide a…

Communicating the complexity of computer‐integrated operations: An innovative use of process modelling in a North East hospital Trust

Teresa Waring, David Wainwright

The English National Health Service has undergone unprecedented political, economic and technological change. This has resulted in a requirement for radical improvements in…

Hybrid stockless: a case study: Lessons for health‐care supply chain integration

Hugo Rivard‐Royer, Sylvain Landry, Martin Beaulieu

Due to the diversity of its players, the American healthcare sector has experimented with different types of integrated supply chain management systems for medical supplies. In…

Organisation of operating theatres: an Italian benchmarking study

Mariolina Longo, Cristina Masella

The paper presents the main results of a benchmarking project involving eight Italian hospitals. The project sought to examine and compare the organisational processes adopted in…

Patient mix optimisation in hospital admission planning: a case study

I.J.B.F. Adan, J.M.H. Vissers

Admissions planning decides on the number of patients admitted for a specialty each day, but also on the mix of patients admitted. Within a specialty different categories of…