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No Harm Done Podcast
by No Harm Done Podcast
A podcast about improving, exploring, understanding and getting on with healthcare safety and quality
Episodes
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NHD S3 Ep4: A CG Supermodel
A multifaceted episode focused on one objective: achieving point-of-care results. We explore two valuable resources from the University of Cambridge and put VirtualCB to the test—will she rise to the occasion or drop her bundle? Plus, the new 2026 National Clinical Governance Model takes to the...
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NHD S3 Ep3: The Hangover
1. QQ (Quality Quandary) (Time 1:00) Measuring Safety Culture Unlike reading a safety culture policy which gives us an ideal picture, safety culture asks the questions that tell us what’s really going on. A resource-heavy segment with tools to help you answer the board’s question: what do we know...
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NHD S3 Ep2: Tools of the Trade
This episode showcases useful toolkits for improving care and services in any sector. Simple. 1. THE POINT (Time: 1:30) Everyone deals with complaints and there is both an art and a science to it. We look at complaint handling resources from Victoria that are useful for all human service sectors....
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NHD Season 3 Episode 1: Keeping Up With Jones
We’re kicking off a new season. Why? Because we want to! You’ll find some new segments and old favourites – and a fair bit of fearless facing of AI in improvement and clinical governance. In Ep 1 you’ll find a reinforcement on what leaders want in a quality management system; a reminder about the...
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NHD (Season 2 Ep 25) Life Rewards Action
Life Rewards Action (whether it’s wardrobes, email or org-wide culture change…) Worried about your ‘culcha’? See your CEO and board earnestly nodding about ‘improving’ culture/creating a ‘culture of quality’ – and then looking expectantly at you? Don’t break out the powerpoint: we have the good…
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NHD Ep 24 (Season 2) Strategy Before Action
1. QUALITY QUANDARY (Time: 0.15) We’ve all been in this Quandary: how to get those docs to engage in improvement? No magic wands here but some useful tips that go beyond ‘Pleeeeeeese!’ Thinking about what they need before what you need is a great start. Jones B, Vaux E, Olsson-Brown A. How to get...
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NHD Ep 23 (season 2) – Remember that name!
1. The Point (Time: 00:15) The evidence is in! Consumers are invaluable on patient safety investigations. From April 2025, the latest Hibbert research – Perceptions and Experiences of Consumer Representatives on Patient Safety Investigation Teams: A Qualitative Analysis....
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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…
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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…
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NHD Ep20 Doesn’t it sound familiar?
Everything old is new again – but with added features! Dignity of risk, spread and scale, negotiating for success – all with fresh clothes but a traditional skeleton. 1. QUALITY QUANDARY (Time: 00:40) A Wicked Problem: managing consumer focus, dignity and risk. (And doesn’t it sound familiar?)...
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NHD Ep19 When is a PDSA not a PDSA?
When we get hold of it, of course! Plus some excellent evidence on the effectiveness component of aged care quality that could use some more attention – and a tip for improving the consumer experience that costs nothing in time, effort or $$$. 1. QUALITY QUANDARY (Time: 00:40) Care Track Aged…
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NHD Ep 18.5 It’s back! All the lowdown on QualityClub 2025
‘Episode 18.5′ is a bit like ‘Platform 9 and 3/4’ – something special we want to let our lovely listeners in on! QualityClub is happening in 2025 from Feb-July – and we enthusiastically invite you to join us! Run by career quality managers and directors, and hosts of No Harm Done Balding and…
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NHD Ep 18: A Dose of Our Own Quality
How much QI is too much? Does accreditation work? What’s in a title? These and other random questions are answered right here! 1. QUALITY QUANDARY (Time: 00:30 ) Building Improvement Capacity and Capability with the Dosing Approach...
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NHD Ep17: Feeling the Quality Love
We face up to the fact that not everyone is sleepless with excitement about our agenda – so how to have people running towards you, and your working and consumer groups, rather than away? And – lets’ look on the bright side for a change! 1. INTRO We discussed ‘VirtualCB’ here: Check her out!:...
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NHD Ep16 AI and QI: Is There a Funny Side?
We certainly thought so! Plus getting the most out of consumer engagement for everyone involved; and we know that good post-discharge care requires solid discharge summaries, but they’re looking a bit wobbly. 1. QUALITY QUANDARY (Time: 1:25) How will AI and Quality Leaders interact? Hilariously…
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NHD Ep15 Quality Care Doesn’t Need Another Hero (just good collaboration)
Cementing the governance and leadership role in good care; using incident analysis differently and livening up those policies (so people actually follow them!) 1. TLDR (Time: 0.45 ) A Dive into the Impact of Governance and Leadership on Quality of Care Fulop, N., & Ramsay, A. (2023). Governance…
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NHD Ep.14 The Race to the Bottom
This ep we’re draining swamps and hacking mindsets – and you thought this was a podcast about improving quality… 1. QUALITY QUANDARY (Time: 01:10) Draining the Root Cause Swamp Trbovich P, Shojania KG. Root-cause analysis: swatting at mosquitoes versus draining the swamp. BMJ Quality & Safety...
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NHD Ep. 13 It’s a Struggle!
In this ep we look at the reasons behind the struggle (behind the grind, behind the slog) for improvement (and it’s probably got nothing to do with you); as well as how to build psychological safety and communication again, again, again… Vaughn VM, et al. Characteristics of healthcare…
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NHD S2 Ep11: ChatQI
It was inevitable – NHD wades into AI for a bit of ChatQI. 1. Intro (Time: 00:25) We don’t often include the intro in the shownotes, but as we banged on about ChatGPT and its deep understanding of quality manager challenges… https://chat.openai.com/auth/login 2. QUALITY QUANDARY (Time: 6.45) How...
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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...
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NHD Season 2 Ep 9: Happy Staff, Happy Consumers
We know – it’s obvious. So why is it so rare to see consumer and staff satisfaction addressed in tandem? 1. QQ (Quality Quandary) (Time:1:20) Putting Consumers First and Staff First Too! Successful improvement requires both consumers and staff to get something positive out of the process. But…
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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...
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NHD Season 2: Ep 7 – Not Missing The Point!
OK, sometimes we miss The Point. We just can’t fit the segment into every podcast, with our new abbreviated second season format. But sit back and relax – this entire episode is The Point! (Also – don’t sit back & relax if you’re driving. Keep your back straight, your mind alert and hands on the...
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NHD Season 2 – Episode 6: Shooting Stars
We look at the Comprehensive Care Standard and Aged Care Star Ratings – transformative changes in the name of quality. Are these ‘stars’ in the improvement galaxy making a difference? 1. QQ – Quality Quandary (Time: 1.45) Can Quality Ratings help you shoot for the quality stars? From December,...
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NHD Season 2 – Episode 5: ‘Just so Interesting’
Education on its own doesn’t make a lot of difference to behaviour – so why do we persist with making it our central change management tactic? We also look at aged care loneliness and a toolkit for designing great consumer experiences – with the people who’ll experience them! All really different…
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NHD Season 2: Episode 4 – Your Virtual Reading Pile
Patient Safety ‘intelligence’ in Consumer Feedback Gillespie A, Reader TW. Online patient feedback as a safety valve: An automated language analysis of unnoticed and unresolved safety incidents. Risk Analysis, August, 2022. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/risa.14002 2. TLDR (Too Long...
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NHD Season 2: Episode 3 – To Spread or not to Spread? – that is the Question
From spreading to embedding Scarbrough, Harry; Kyratsis, Yiannis. From spreading to embedding innovation in health care: Implications for theory and practice. Health Care Management Review: 7/9 2022 – Volume 47 – Issue 3 – p 236-244 doi: 10.1097/HMR.0000000000000323 Previous No Harm Done episodes...
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NHD Season 2 – Episode 2: The Consistency of Inconsistency
We’re back! – for Season 2. Looking forward to more human services’ quality revelations, lessons, ruminations – and fun! Shorter episodes will cover 3-4 of our favourite segments in bite-size chunks! 1. Quality Quandary (Time: 1:50) Do quality indicators predict quality assessment ratings? Allen…
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NHD Season 2: Ep 1 – A New Hope
We’re back! – for Season 2. Looking forward to more human services’ quality revelations, lessons, ruminations – and fun! Shorter episodes will cover 3-4 of our favourite segments in bite-size chunks! 1. The Point (Time: 2:30) Impact on care quality of consumers accessing their Electronic Health...
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NHD Episode 32: Marvellous Meetings
We all have them, we all need them, we all suffer in them (at times). Necessary evil or force for good, it’s time to delve into the good, bad and ugly of meetings. And in an ironic tribute to poorly chaired meetings, we have somehow let this podcast go 5 minutes over time. Sorry! 1....
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NHD Ep 31 – Learning from the Aged Care Royal Commission: the quality bits
It’s time to dive into the Aged Care Royal Commission Report – well, the quality and clinical/care governance bits, anyway… 1. QUALITY QUANDARY: (time 8:20) Can RC findings on Q&S in aged care be applied to all human service sectors? So, another massive report on safety and quality in the human...
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NHD Episode 30 – Vanishing Variation: Practical Tips for Doing More of the Same
Ep 30 is a little different! – it was originally recorded as a videocast for the Australian Safety and Quality Commission’s online program series: Better Care Everywhere, Healthcare Variation in practice – basically a conference held live online in February 2021, and later on demand. We explore...
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NHD Ep 29 – Compassion: quality improvement’s secret weapon
We know that compassion and alleviating pain and symptoms generally feature high on consumers’ wish lists. But do healthcare providers feel that the latter is more useful than the former? There’s plenty of science now that suggests that this is the wrong way around. There are many examples…
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NHD Ep 28 – Successful Change: it’s all in the mind
We’re revisiting the gnarly topic of change – this is our third ep on the subject, because there is so much to unpack! And because there is only one way to improve – and that is to change – successfully. And because the stats say we’re still struggling with this. This time we focus on...
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NHD Ep 27: Chasing a Culture of Safety
Culture – we talk about it constantly. And Patient Safety Culture – we all know what that is – right? And how to create it? This episode delves into the patient safety culture world to look for answers to common – but tricky – questions about the whys and hows of a patient safety culture....
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NHD episode 26: Quality Controversy
There are a few sacred cows in the world of quality improvement – as there are in any sector. This episode takes a closer look at some of those cows – to reveal they aren’t so sacred after all. 1. QUALITY QUANDARY Our QQ for this episode reminds us that accepted norms and truths may...
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NHD Ep 25: Quality – from Accreditation to Accounting
As we keep saying, ‘quality’ is about way more than accreditation. But is it also about accounting? Get the quality right and the dollars will follow, so they say. Or will they? 1. QUALITY QUANDARY Our QQ for today reminds us that sometimes it ‘pays’ to show management that quality improvement is...
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NHD Ep 24: ‘Plandemic’ – from Quality to Quarantine
Ep 24 is a special NHD edition that explores the pandemic from the perspective of healthcare administration, evidence based care and planning. (Otherwise known as the ‘Zoomami’ edition. Advance apologies for the Zoom recording quality which is a little echo-y.) 1. QUARANTINE QUANDARY (3:34) We…
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NHD Ep 23: Back to the Future
In Ep 23, everything old is new again. We delve into management theories from 100 years ago that not only have relevance for change and improvement in 2020 – but are often wrapped up in shiny paper and touted as new. And why does a change in CEO bring a quality system to a grinding...
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NHD Ep 22 – Is it good value?
Ep 22 finds Jones and Balding cogitating on value based care. What’s it all about? Is it a fad? Old thinking wrapped up in new language? Or is it exactly what we need to break through to next level care and service quality? We shall see… 1. QUALITY QUANDARY (4:26) What is value in health and...
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NHD Ep 21 – We’re positive!
Jones and Balding take a walk on the quality bright side. What do the improvement experts say about our relentless focus on removing defects to achieve quality care? How could this be applied to all health and human services – including aged care and the recommendations emanating from the Royal...
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NHD Ep 20: Failure to Launch
In this episode we discuss the upsides of failure for learning and improvement – and just to show that we’re serious, we conduct our own failure experiment… QQ (Quality Quandary): FAILURE! Course Corrections: How Health Care Innovators Learn from Setbacks to Achieve Success. Klein S, Hostetter M,...
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NHD Ep 19: Getting Rid of Stupid Stuff
Welcome to No Harm Done! – a podcast about improving, managing, monitoring and getting on with quality and safety in health and human services. In this episode we unpack more components of leading and managing quality improvement, including tips for working with doctors, reinforcing the key role…
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NHD Ep 18: The Triple A (All About Accreditation)
Welcome to No Harm Done Episode18: All About Accreditation In this ep we wander the accreditation maze, looking for clues. Does it work? Do consumers have a role? Can it be managed without light years of stress? And find out how relatives and friends ‘protect’ their loved ones in hospital – this…
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NHD Ep 17 Measurement Part 2+2=3
WELCOME TO NO HARM DONE! In this episode, Jones and Balding revisit the thorny and vexed area of quality measurement – but this time we have the good sense to call in the experts – well, one expert, anyway. Cousin David joins us – that’s David Balding, Professor of Statistical Genetics at the...
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NHD Episode 16 – Let’s Get Engaged
WELCOME TO NO HARM DONE! In this episode we examine engaging with consumers from a few different perspectives, Jones gives some super productive tips for being super productive, and we answer a lovely listener FAAAQQ about how to enrapture staff with clinical governance – in 15 minutes! QUALITY...
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NHD Episode 15 – Safety Too?
Welcome to No Harm Done Episode 15 hosted by Cathy Balding and Cathy Jones, from Melbourne, Australia. In this episode we get proactive about Risk Management in RM Part 2 – ‘Safety 2’ – as our Quality Quandary and TLDR. What’s it all about? In Quality Hacks, Balding describes how to develop your...
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NHD Episode 14 – Is this podcast appropriate?
Welcome to No Harm Done Episode 14 hosted by Cathy Balding and Cathy Jones, from Melbourne, Australia. In this episode we muse over appropriateness and effectiveness. 0:00 QUALITY QUANDARY: The QQ is a big issue we unpack, argue about, talk about conflicting perspectives etc. This time we ponder:...
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NHD Episode 13 – Risky Business
Welcome to No Harm Done Episode 13 hosted by Cathy Balding and Cathy Jones, from Melbourne, Australia. In this episode we wade into the clinical risk management swamp where danger lurks… What would you like us to talk about next? Send us a message below! 1:00 Quality Quandary The QQ is a big…
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