Consistent with the National Health Services long-term vision to make personalised care business as usual, Grand Drive Surgery has implemented Health and Wellbeing Coaching as part of its practice to support patients with their overall health and wellbeing.
Health and Wellbeing Coaching helps people to: (i) become more self-aware about their health, (ii) make lasting behaviour changes and (iii) show up to life as the healthiest version of themselves. You will always be the expert on your own life and what works best for you.
Our Health & Wellbeing Coaches are here to support you
Our H&W Coaches will guide you through a beautiful process so that you can clearly see what health and wellbeing means to you and what makes your health really important. This includes giving you tools to be more present in the moment and handle stressful situations better.
In addition to supporting you with making positive behaviour changes to improve your overall health and wellbeing, these are just some of the areas our H&W Coaches can help you with: weight management, Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, mental health (stress as well), changing behaviours related to substance use (depending on circumstances) and chronic conditions.
Benefits
These are just some of the benefits you will gain from working with our H&W Coaches:
- Self-awareness: greater inner awareness and centred in the present moment
- Achievement: achievement after taking realistic action steps and reaching your goals
- Clarity: calmness and contentment as well as gaining mental clarity
- Confidence: empowered to take control of your own destiny
- Strategies: better at acknowledging and coping with emotional, mental or physical health concerns
What to expect
Our H&W Coaches will:
- create a safe and trusted environment within which you can partner together to maximise your overall health and wellbeing
- guide you through the Health and Wellbeing Coaching process in a structured, fun and exciting way
- utilise a variety of coaching skills with empathy and kindness in order to support behaviour change
- take time to listen to your concerns and ask meaningful questions to help motivate you
- help you to identify any obstacles and create strategies for forward movement
- provide, if required, additional resources for making healthy behavioural changes
Patient experience
“Following a consultation with my GP about arthritic knees, she recommended that I try H&W Coaching as a way of focusing on the important things in my life. In particular, this was about finding positivity to make changes to my daily routine to improve my long-term health outcomes. Having dieted many times over the years and had sessions with a nutritionist and physiotherapist, I wasn’t expecting much more than being told what I should do and then being rigidly monitored. In the past, this approach had done little other than demotivate me.
I was apprehensive before my first session but my H&W Coach made me feel very comfortable, clearly explaining what H&W Coaching was all about, our respective roles and potential time frames. From the beginning, the focus was on contentment; finding joy and happiness in my life, rather than solely on diets and exercise. I found it all very inspiring. I’ve loved learning about mindful awareness and the areas that contribute to this. I’ve really engaged with the techniques my H&W Coach has taught me and have started building time into my day for focus and self-awareness, however brief.
I really look forward to my sessions with my H&W Coach; I love the readings and jot down key points in my notebook, which I frequently look over back at home. I feel I’ve come on a journey and my H&W Coach has guided me through engaging activities, a focus on planning for the future, setting milestones with an ultimate goal and truly 2-way conversations. There has been absolutely no preaching but a slow journey towards a realisation of my self-worth and that I can achieve with a little support on my road to mindful awareness.”
What our patients say
“I found my coaching sessions to be a non-judgemental and personalised way to rethink my lifestyle and health choices. It has helped me break bad habits and to start making small, yet meaningful, changes that I can stick to. It has been a great help.”
“I could not have done it without your support.”
“I would not have realised that if I had not been given the space to think about it.”
“You have changed my life completely.”
“I am so grateful for the support and kindness you have shown to me.”
“You really helped me to get to the root cause of the problem.”
“This kind of support is invaluable – we need more of it.”
Book an introductory session
You have decided that your health is your most precious asset and you are now ready to invest for the long term.
Book a face-to-face introductory session with one of our H&W Coaches (Sally Cregeen or Faiz Khaki) by speaking to your GP.
In this introductory session, you and your H&W Coach will explore your current health situation and you can tell them how you would like things to be different in your life.
Your H&W Coach will then give you a brief overview as to how they can help you, cover the structure of the coaching relationship and introduce the building blocks required for successful behaviour change.
