Health Coaching - changing our conversations

Let's chat health

I am Anne Budenberg and started on this podcast journey when I was unable to complete an article I started to write in 2019. My solution to this unfinished writing was to make a podcast, with 5 episodes on the topics I tried to explore in my writing.

This is created from three perspectives

• as a daughter
• as a healthcare professional (dentist) with some knowledge of the NHS system, and
• through the eyes of the patient

In this episode I'm speaking to Dr Andrew McDowell, founder of TPC Health.

Andrew is a psychologist, coach and leadership professional with more than 30 years experience of innovation in the health and care sector.

We are speaking about Health Coaching - what it is, and how it fits within health care interactions. How can we change the quality of the conversation we have with patients so that they are supported, and motivated to change their behaviour to improve their health. Research shows that traditional healthcare models where healthcare professionals are seen as fixers are not sufficient, but they need to be be working in partnership with patients, as enablers. Patients have the resources both internally and externally to improve their health and well-being.

Resources:

• A comprehensive model for personalised care (July 2018) https://www.nationalvoices.org.uk/sites/default/files/public/event/comprehensive_model_for_personalised_care_-_james_sanderson_10_july_2018.pdf

• Good and bad help: how purpose and confidence transform lives’ Feb. 2018 by Good Help Project . https://osca.co/publications/good-bad-help/

• Health Coaching https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/health-coaching

• Healthy lives for people in the UK. Introducing the Health Foundations’s healthy lives strategy August 2018. https://reader.health.org.uk/healthy-lives-for-people-in-the-uk

• Patient Activation Measure (2018) https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/module-1-patient-activation-measure-implementation-quick-guide/ (accessed 1/2/22)

• Supporting people to manage their health: An introduction to patient activation. https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/supporting-people-manage-their-health

• Tools to implement supported self-management https://www.england.nhs.uk/personalisedcare/supported-self-management/supporting-tools/

• TPC Health https://tpchealth.com/

• What makes us healthy? An Introduction to the social determinants of health by The Health Foundation https://www.health.org.uk/videos/watch-what-makes-us-healthy