This blog was written by the Virtual Village Hall team. The Virtual Village Hall is a free, online activity hub and community designed by the charity, Royal Voluntary Service. It helps people stay mentally and physically active, socially connected and having fun, supporting them to better manage their health, including long-term conditions. There’s everything you’d expect […]
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This blog was written by Austen El-Osta Director, Self-Care Academic Research Unit (SCARU), Imperial College London Personalised care has been firmly embedded in NHS policy for several years. Its principles are already widely endorsed, its language is familiar and its ambition, that care that starts with what matters to people, not just what is the
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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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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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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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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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. Â Recently I
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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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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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In this guest blog, Molly Kenyon, Peer Leader at West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board, shares her experience of living with multiple long-term health conditions and the importance of shared decision making. I’m 68, and like most people my health isn’t perfect. Sometimes we cope so efficiently that a stranger meeting us might not notice. What
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