Cutting edge thinking of cancer treatment and car making come together

After being diagnosed with cancer, Mike Butler was fascinated by the process through which patients were treated – but saw an opportunity to introduce practices from the car manufacturing facility, so that it might run more smoothly. Working together with his colleagues, at the Ford assembly plant in Cologne, quality director Butler and the team researched and proposed changes that are now being implemented as part of what is expected to become Europe’s biggest dedicated cancer unit.