Did you know our Health Coach Kerri Marsh supports patients to:
- Change their behaviour, so they can make better healthcare choices based on what matters to them
- Supports them to become more active in their health and care
- Develops their knowledge, skills and confidence in managing their health and wellbeing
- Increases their ability to access and utilise community support offers
- Encourages proactive prevention of further illnesses
- Increases their motivation to self-manage and adopt healthy behaviours
- Expands people’s choice and control over the care they receive
- Improves patients’ relationships with and experiences of health care
- Empowers people with more complex needs to support them to live well, help reduce the risk of becoming frail and minimise the burden of treatment
- Support the patients to establish and attain self-identified goals that are important to the patient and will support their ability to manage their own health and wellbeing
- Understands patients’ activation levels and provide tailored care and support to meet their needs
- Support patients living with long-term conditions to access information and develop skills to find out what is right for their condition and, most importantly, right for them
- Health coaches use general non-directive and directive coaching skills and techniques, insights and processes informed by health psychology and behaviour change science, and their own specific knowledge and skills as a practitioner to change patients’ mind-set around their health and wellbeing outcomes and encourage the onus to be with the individual
Kerri also provides personalised 1:1 or group sessions to support patients to achieve self-identified health and wellbeing goals that will enable them to better manage and take ownership over their health concerns. Here are some links to posters giving information about our up and coming events based at Blythe Bridge Library. We’d love to see you there, all are welcome.
Asthma and Lung Event (DOCX, 75KB)