No Harm Done Podcast

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 oil on the practicalities of shifting culture for happier staff...

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 started...

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. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hex.70281 2. QUALITY HACK (Time: 16:15) We’ve all heard loads of bright ideas for remembering names –...

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...