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Self-Compassion: A Quiet Skill with Powerful Impact in Healthcare

Dr Raza is a GP, compassionate care advocate, and experienced communication skills expert who also works as an appraiser and mentor, supporting clinicians to develop empathy-led, reflective, and sustainable practice. Self-Compassion is often misunderstood as softness, yet in healthcare it is one of the most practical and sustainable skills we can develop. At its core, self-compassion […]

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Why group clinics make personalised care more personal

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Alisha Evans is a qualified Health and Wellbeing Coach and National Programme Manager at Experience Led Care. In her article, she discusses how group clinics can help people to feel more confident and in control of their health and care through peer support. Behaviour change is a fickle, complex beast. Anyone who has ever tried

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Evaluating health and wellbeing coaching interventions

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In our new expert blog – Kate Henry (Know Your Own Health), Kay Leedham-Green (Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London), and Austen El-Osta (Director of the Director of the Self-Care Academic Research Unit at Imperial College London) – explore three evidence-based measurements can be used to assess the impact of health and wellbeing coaching interventions.

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Improving personalised care for people with multiple health conditions

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Professor Chris Salisbury is Emeritus Professor of Primary Health Care at the Centre for Academic Primary Care at the University of Bristol. Here he talks about how to provide more personalised care for people with multiple long-term conditions. The new GP contract requires primary care networks to identify groups of patients who are most likely

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Health and Wellbeing Coaching in the NHS – how do we ‘realise the value’?

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This is a guest blog from Kate Henry – Health and Wellbeing Coach Programme Lead, Trainer/Supervisor, Researcher at Know Your Own Health, a PCI accredited training programme which provides all the skills needed to deliver Health & Wellbeing Coaching, together with support to put the skills into practice to achieve high-quality outcomes. Recently I

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Social Prescribing of Arts and Culture

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This is a guest blog from Carly Annable-Coop – Programme Manager at Performing Medicine, a provider of PCI-accredited training who offer online training for social prescribing link workers, using arts-based training to enhance compassionate care, support client wellbeing, and promote professional development. Performing Medicine, winner of the Times Higher Award for Excellence and Innovation, has been delivering

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How reading can help people understand and manage their health and wellbeing

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This is a guest blog from Gemma Jolly, Head of Health and Wellbeing at the Reading Agency, on the charity’s ‘Reading Well Programme’. This programme is a national ‘Books on Prescription’ scheme, which provides people with recommended reading material to help them understand and manage their health and wellbeing. The Reading Agency In England, more

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The Power of Virtual Group Consultations

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This is a guest blog from Professor Fraser Birrell, Honorary of Lifestyle Medicine & Innovation, Newcastle University, Editor-in-Chief of Lifestyle Medicine, and Director of Science & Research, British Society of Lifestyle Medicine. In the blog, Fraser discusses the power of virtual group consultations to support the delivery of personalised care and some upcoming initiatives around

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Do you know about Human Rights?

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This is a guest blog from Jacqui Graves, PCI Ambassador, Primary Care Cancer Care Nurse, Advisor for Macmillan Cancer Support and Trustee at Penny Brohn UK, on the relationship between human rights and the delivery of personalised care. Human rights can mean different things to different people and in different cultures and countries. Human rights

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Can good, personalised care conversations happen over the phone?

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This is a guest blog from Carol Pickering, executive coach and organisational development practitioner, and Mary Cross, health coach, trainer and learning & development specialist at Health Coaching Academy, in which they share their top six tips for health and care professionals wanting to conduct high quality, personalised care conversations over the phone. Can good,

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How NASP can support the development of social prescribing in Primary Care Networks and Integrated Care Systems.

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This is a guest blog from Najnin Islam, Head of Healthcare Integration at the National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP), a member of the Personalised Care Institute (PCI) Steering Group. It outlines what resources are available from NASP to support health and care systems to maximise social prescribing and provide personalised care to their local communities.

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Transforming conversations and relationships using health coaching

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Personalised Care Institute Ambassador, Dr Aicha Bouraoui, is supporting Health Coaching Awareness Week this week, by sharing her experiences of health coaching and how she has built it into her day-to-day practice and service delivery. Dr Bouraoui is a clinical research fellow in adolescent rheumatology and an ST7 in rheumatology and general internal medicine. She

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The future of healthcare: integrating health coaching into personalised care

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This is a guest blog from Hannah Draboczy, on behalf of the Health Coaching Academy, a provider of PCI-accredited training. In her blog, Hannah outlines principles of health coaching and its role in personalised care, along with offering practical tips and case studies for integrating the approach in various settings. Despite its growing importance, many

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