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Current research suggests coaching works best for:
• long term conditions
• multiple morbidities
However, there is some research that suggests it has much wider applications.8,9
What are the benefits for staff?
The following is a typical list culled from the literature:
• better learning
• unlocking of personal potential
• better management of change
• more efficient implementation of acquired skills
• better leadership skills
• increased motivation
• decreased Stress
• less sickness absence.
I think it worth quoting the following from: Evaluation: GP Life Coaching Pilot in Shropshire and Staffordshire Sara Buckley, Professor Ruth Chambers
at the Centre for Health Policy and Practice, Faculty of Health and Sciences, Staffordshire University.
Positive benefits noted by the doctors who were coached were:
• increased effectiveness at work
• career planning
• re-examination of their work-life balance
• improvement in the quality of relationships at home and at work
Five of the 33 GPs interviewed (15%) were considering leaving general practice and reported that they had changed their career plans as a result of the coaching as they realised they were happy to remain working as GPs.
And from the London Deanery Training GP trainees in health coaching 2011: https://www.networks.nhs.uk › documents ›
‘My whole approach to patients has changed and affects at least 50% of
all of my consultations. Being able to give patients responsibility in their own healthcare and not being as directive as I used to be has been the main change and one I feel has benefitted patient care.’ (GP)
If anyone wishes further information or to discuss whether they would benefit from mentoring/coaching I can be contacted at: andrew.leahy@emccglobal.org or in the psychiatry section of the IDF website.
REFERENCES
1. Whitmore, J. (1992). Coaching for performance. London: Nicholas Brealey
2. https://www.emccglobal.org/leadership- development/leadership-development- mentoring/ October 2021
3. https://www.leadershipacademy.nhs. uk/resources/coaching-register/, and https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2020/03/health-coaching- implementation-and-quality-summary-guide. pdf
4. https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/ health-coaching-summary-guide-and- technical-annexes/
5. “Effective Modern Coaching - the principles and art of successful business coaching” page 234; 2nd paragraph. Author Myles Downey, LID Publishing Ltd 2014
6. Research shows that people only remember on average three things from any one consultation—‘hello, it’s a virus, goodbye.’
7. Wolever, R.Q., Moore, M.A. & Jordan,
J. (2016b). Coaching in healthcare. In G.Bachkirova, G. Spence & D. Drake (Eds.) The Sage handbook of coaching (pp.521- 543).
8. The Evidence Centre (2014) Does Health Coaching Work? A Rapid Review of Empirical Evidence. Health Education East of England: NHS.
9. BMJ 2008;336:228-9Annette M O’Connor Dawn Stacey, France Légaré doi: 10.1136/ bmj.39435.643275.
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