Creating Great Care with Great Quality Systems
Make quality and clinical governance make sense - and create great care in the process.
I specialise in developing and implementing quality and clinical governance systems in health, aged care and human services that ‘make quality make sense'. If you're setting up a new system or enhancing an existing one - across an organisation, a department or a service - you'll find a resource to help you here! My books, videos, interviews, tools and podcast are all aimed at one thing: helping you to help others create consistently great care.
The cornerstone of my work is a unique and simple strategic quality system (SQS) model, developed over many years of research and real-world experience, designed to answer one key question: ‘how can we create great care for every person, every time?’ Read more...
Join the QualityNews email list to receive regular tools and tips on the latest quality, safety and governance issues - and receive my free quality system assessment tool. and see below for 'what's new?'
I look forward to you joining the thousands of people committed to going beyond compliance to creating greatness with consumers!
Dr Cathy Balding, FCHSM, GAICD
Books
Cathy’s books support great point of care experiences through strategic focus and practical quality and clinical governance system implementation.
Tools, Tips & Resources
Tools, Tips & Resources are designed to help you make your quality system more dynamic, effective, savvy, practical and point of care focused.
QualityClass
Qualityclass online & face-face training products are designed to equip executives, managers and teams with the 'will and skill' to create great care.
Qualityworks Consulting
Helping health, aged, community & human service organisations fulfill their potential to create great care for every consumer, every time.
WHAT'S NEW?
MEET VIRTUAL CB!
Like to ask me a question? Try 'Virtual CB'! Virtual Cb is equipped wth the information from my books, articles and courses and is game to tackle any quality and CG question, with the answers based on my material over the past decade. Find her here
JOIN QUALITYCLUB!
Something is happening in 2024 that I've been wanting to do for a long time. QualityClub! Cathy Jones and I have heard the messages from Quality Managers around the country - and beyond. Quality roles are challenging - but no one teaches you how to craft the role to be less frustrating and more fulfilling. We want to help you to do just that.
QClub is a six month program of online group coaching sessions for people in quality-related roles, to explore and evolve their role to be more satisfying and effective.
Get more info here
Interested? Email me and let me know!: cathyb@qualityworks.com.au
Ever feel like you're in the clinical governance dark? You're not alone! Clinical governance is full of deep and wide rabbit holes that you can get lost in - sometimes for years. But who has time for that? Click here for my new 'Four clinical governance rabbit holes to avoid' paper for the latest info on how not to fall in in the first place - and if you find yourself in a CG warren - how to get out...
And - Check out the CG rabbit holes video here
Would you like some more support in your role? Who wouldn't! Introducing...the Australasian Institute for Clinical Governance S&Q Membership Community! This new AICG membership is designed to help you focus on the CG activities you need to get done, providing videos, blogs and tools in 8 key CG categories. All your CG resources in one place - plus interactive Q&A! Find out more here
Six 'Must Have' Skills for Strategic Quality Leaders. What skills will help you drive quality strategy to great care? A ready reckoner for quality leader professional development and recruitment. Get it here
And if you'd like your quality and CG system to be less about you and more about managers and staff using the system to improve care, my new Q&CG Management System Map may help! - find the pdf file at the end of 'What's New?'
The QUALITY SYSTEM ROADMAP COURSE
I'm pleased to bring you my complete strategic quality system - for the first time in an online course - including some tips and tactics I've never taught in a live workshop!
Great quality systems that achieve great care must be specifically designed and implemented for success. The QSR is the only step by step course that synthesises best practice and experience into a strategic path toward creating great point of care and service experiences, within the complexity of human service organisations.
Over five video modules, you'll develop your toolkit - and start applying it - to build a strategic, point of service and care-based quality system.
'Cathy is a master at conveying information on quality systems, drawing on her extensive experience and providing practical examples to demystify clinical governance. Health care workers strive to provide high-quality care and Cathy's modules supply the tools and knowledge to assist organisations to consistently achieve the best care.' Director Quality, Safety and Patient Experience, Western Health.
Online courses can be quite artificial but I really felt like I was in one of Cathy’s workshops. Her presentation style is so engaging that I felt like it was a one-on-one and she was speaking directly to me. Every time I hear Cathy speak I think about new ways to engage staff in Making Quality Matter. She has a deep understanding of the health sector and the challenges we face in making quality and safety Everyone’s Business, not the job of the Quality Unit. - Dr Marg Way, Deakin University
PRICE: AUD $197 (plus GST)
Find out more about module content and purchase the QSR Course by clicking here.
Free eBook: 'Three Essential Strengths for Quality Leaders: how to cultivate respect, get your message across and master your role for success.' Want more influence and effectiveness in your quality leadership role? Get it here.
My free 'LEEDIT' short course
Ever thought you were leading people towards great care - but when you turned around there was no-one there? We all know that feeling! Sharpen up your leadership skills with the LEEDIT five top tips for engaging people in every step of the improvement cycle. Don't just work towards great care - LEEDIT!
'Hi Cathy, finished your 6 part LEEDIT course today and loved it. It may even replace my current PDCA guidance!' - Audrey Ellis, Quality Manager, EACH.
More info about the course
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The NHD Podcast
We’re back! – with another episode of “No Harm Done”, hosted by Cathy Jones and Cathy Balding. NHD is a podcast about improving, exploring, understanding and getting on with safety and quality governance, improvement and creation across acute, aged and community services.
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How can we help?
The Point of Care
We take organisational improvement from the dry and technical topic it can be and embed it in the story of a CEO trying to make a difference against the odds - and against time.
The SQM Handbook
A Handbook for Navigating Quality Management Roles in Health and Aged Care. This book contains theory, tips, step by step models and practical examples.
The CGQS Blueprint Book
A step by step blueprint for building and implementing a quality system that staff will want to use to create a great consumer experience for every person, every time.
Total Quality System Solution
The SQM Handbook & The CGQS Blueprint provide the framework for an effective quality system that achieves high-quality care. Purchase together and receive 15% off the total price.
Getting Results with The Strategic Quality System
In 2014, Mercy Health set out to reinvigorate quality and safety. Following a series of workshops facilitated by Cathy and using the Strategic Quality Management System, we were able to clearly and meaningfully define our vision, goals and objectives for safe and quality care for patients at Mercy Health. Fast forwarding three years later, our quality framework has been embedded into many aspects of the business – indicator dashboards, quality improvement, decision-making, priority setting, compliance systems – and the list goes on.
Has it been an easy road? Absolutely not! Are we where we want to be? Absolutely not! We have made amazing headway though on our quality and safety journey and are really proud of how far our systems, processes and culture has come in such a short time. The best thing is that we have not lost our momentum, and our passion and enthusiasm is stronger than ever because of the staff engagement we have achieved along the way. We owe our success to the strong framework that was developed under Cathy’s leadership – it always brings us back to purpose and is built on solid, meaningful principles that resonate!
Filomena Ciaveralla, Former Quality & Safety Director, Mercy Health Services