GP Coaching Pilot - the results

Last year NHSE funded a pilot for the Faculty of Medical Leadership & Management to offer coaching to GPs who were considering leaving practice.

The evaluation report is a fantastic endorsement of the power of coaching and clearly illustrates the positive impact that these interventions can make on peoples' lives. As the report says GPs overwhelmingly endorsed their experience of coaching, with 89% saying that they would take up coaching again.  The coaches working on the pilot were:

• John Aspden, Executive Coach and Director, Cognitions
• Katherine Foreman, Executive Coach and Managing Director, Topeka Healthcare
• Alexis Hutson, Executive Coach, Coaching Doctors
• Liz McCaw, Executive Coach and Consultant, Headspace for Business

And the feedback about all the coaches was incredibly positive.

Alexis is extremely personable and easy to talk to. She is a great listener and really good at getting at the nub of the issue. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting with her and felt able to speak candidly with her about my thoughts, feelings and anxieties and about sensitive and personal issues as well as work, the workplace and wider issues which impact on work and life and the balance between the two.

CLICK HERE to read full report.

For more information contact FMLM at primarycare@fmlm.ac.uk.