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Can good, personalised care conversations happen over the phone?

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. 

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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Why personalised care plans should be a norm for long-term conditions

Dr Nilesh Bharakhada, is the Clinical Director for Health and Care at the Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) There are over 26 million people in the UK living with at least one long-term condition and 10 million who have two or more1. Many of them are at different stages of their conditions, have different lifestyles

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Transforming conversations and relationships using health coaching

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 Right to Smile

This is a guest blog by the Right to Smile Consensus, which is taking action to improve the oral health of people who experience severe mental ill health. The blog was co-authored by the following people:  Dr Vishal Aggarwal is a dentist and clinical associate professor at the University of Leeds.  Dr Carolyn A Chew-Graham is a

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Say hello to our ambassadors

We’re delighted to celebrate the appointment of more than 100 health and care professionals to our ambassador programme – bringing the total membership to 134! The 100+ new ambassadors join our current network of highly qualified and skilled health and care professionals, all of whom share a passion for personalised care. Launched in 2021, our

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What’s in a name?

This is a guest post from Zanne Gaynor and Kathryn Alevizos, co-founders of Acrobat Global,on the importance of correctly pronouncing and spelling a person’s name for creating inclusive environments. While the card pictured below might bring a wry smile to your face, there’s a serious message going on here. If you don’t take the time

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Shared decision making: Inviting the patient to tell their story

Dr Jenni Naisby from the Personalised Care Institute (PCI) caught up with Professor Alf Collins, NHS England’s Clinical Director, Personalised Care Group, to discuss shared decision making and the recently developed Decision Support Tools. Professor Collins has researched and published widely on self-management support, shared decision making, care planning, co-production, patient activation and patient engagement

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New training support for maternity services following final Ockenden Review report

Working in partnership with NHS London, we have launched three new training films for local maternity services that will help contribute to the safety and wellbeing of all who access and use maternity services, following the final report of the Ockenden Review published earlier this year. Coproduced by women and birthing people, midwives and obstetricians,

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