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Season 2 Ep 10: We Get to The Point (and stay for quite a while)

More delving into the nuts and bolts of effective partnering with consumers to make things better. And we found a facilitators playground for you to play in! 1. The (TLDR) Point! (Time: 1:00) Top evidence-based tips for partnering with consumers to improve care and services. Cochrane gathered the evidence so we – or you –…

NHD Season 2 Ep 8 How to Build a Quality Manager

There’s a lot riding on quality manager skills – in this ep we discuss what it takes to be great, as well as picking out a couple of essential tasks: building change readiness and making Community/Care Advisory Committees successful. 1. QQ (Quality Quandary) (Time: 1:29) How to Build a Quality Manager What are the essential…

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.