Looks like hospitals in the U.K. have caught on to what we Lean Thinkers have known for a long time:

1. Not being able to find things can have some very undesirable results.
2. The reasons why that is often the case is because “we have always done it that way”.
3. The fix is to break existing paradigms and apply some solid 5S and visual management techniques.

A design team re-imagined the ubiquitous “crash cart” from the ground up, with eye-pleasing and efficient results that staff seem to appreciate (once they’ve picked up the pieces of their broken paradigms, that is).

Check it out:

Read the article here.  Read another blogger’s assessment here.  Read a further description on the Lean Blog here.