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NHD Episode 7 At What Cost?

Welcome to No Harm Done Episode 7 hosted by Cathy Balding and Cathy Jones, from Melbourne, Australia. Most of this episode is dedicated to grappling with the big, hairy issue of cost and quality. Understanding a bit about this can help a lot with getting high quality care high on the executive agenda! We also…

NHD Episode 6 Riding the quality cycle

Welcome to No Harm Done Episode 6 hosted by Cathy Balding and Cathy Jones, from Melbourne, Australia. In this episode we cycle around the quality cycle: PDCA / PDSA – as our Quality Quandary. What does it really mean? We discuss doing something useful with data from patient surveys, and whether or not electronic medical records…

Cathy Jones has worked as a senior executive in healthcare in public and private sectors, for the past 20 years. She lectures internationally on quality and safety and is an experienced podcaster and broadcaster, hosting the Can’t Bowl Can’t Throw Cricket Show and the HitchPod podcast.

Cathy Balding is Director of Qualityworks PL and Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University. She is the author of three books on practical quality systems for human services that focus on creating greatness at the point of ccare. Cathy has worked in quality policy and operational roles and consults across all human services sectors. Find free tools and info to take your quality system beyond compliance to greatness at www.cathybalding.com

Jones captures Balding happily waving her new book around at the Episode 10 recording. In this ep we have a lot of fun acting out a scene from the book – that doesn’t feel all that fictional…

For Ep 17, our second NHD episode on measurement, we wanted a numbers expert – and as we couldn’t find one named Cathy, we called in another Balding! – Professor David Balding FAA, that is.