Category Archives: National Health Reform

Insights from my recent networking trip to Canada

Last month I travelled to Canada to meet with several health leaders and visit facilities to build on HG’s knowledge of the healthcare system and networks of top talent in the country.

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Taking Charge of Our Health and Social Care System

Noreen Dowd, Interim Accountable Officer of NHS Oldham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) met with Kevin Hardy and Paul Ingle in April this year in London and shared some of her early experiences of Local Care Organisations in…

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Lessons learnt: healthcare leadership from many cultural backgrounds

I have been very fortunate to have worked in the international environment for the last 10 years. This has given me practical experience of different leadership practices around the world. I am often asked how are we in Australasia different in our…

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International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare 2017 – Day 2

This is a follow on from my thoughts on Day 1 at IHI 2017 which was convened back in London this year and which in my view was more about embedding the patient experience and engagement…

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International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare 2017 – Day 1

One of the events in my calendar that I have missed only once in the past 5 years – IHI Forum. London once again was the setting for over 3,000 healthcare leaders and practitioners from around…

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The power of sustainable and transformational health partnerships

By Rhodie Miller A coalition of international stakeholders have come together in a Global Public-Private Partnership to give communities and families the power to prevent diarrhoea and respiratory infections through the simple act of teaching children…

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Problem-Solution driven collaboration in Healthcare

Maureen Bisagnano, CEO IHI shares some stories with Kevin Hardy from HardyGroup International about how some ‘unusual’ partnerships are delivering surprising results in delivering care to vulnerable young people in the community. Through clear problem-solution goals,…

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Australian Healthcare Summit 2013

I walked away from the Australian Healthcare Summit 2013 last week with an overwhelming sense of the scale and pace of adaptive change required of health leaders, managers and the workforce across the board. So many…

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Interview: Kevin Hardy with Maureen Bisognano at APAC 2013

Kevin Hardy speaks with Maureen Bisognano, President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) – Healthcare Innovation is everybody’s Business. Not to be missed …One full length video (below) also available in 6 shorter…

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Our global networks: A Scottish perspective of change priorities

by Gerry Marr, CEO Tyneside NHS Trust The recession in Europe has been very deep but we believe that over time the economic challenges will resolve.  We now need to respond to the demographic challenge of…

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