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NHD Ep 22 – Season 2 – Tools for Greatness

1. TLDR (Too Long Didn’t Read – or Too Long Must Read, for our Victorian listeners – for this particular document!) (Time: 1:05) No more ‘safe, high-quality care’, and the improvement cycle gets a makeover. What sorcery is this? It’s The Safer Care Victoria Victorian Clinical Governance Framework! https://www.safercare.vic.gov.au/publications/victorian-clinical-governance-framework 2. DRDR (Did Read, Do Read)…

NHD Ep 21 Season 2 – Elephants in the System

Getting to ‘consistently good’ requires systematic thinking from the logical part of your brain – and a system to back it up. But this won’t happen unless the ‘elephant’ part of your brain wants to go there. Improving care and service quality is a whole-of-brain workout! 1. QUALITY QUANDARY (Time: 0:45) No, you’re not wrong…

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.