This week Ben is joined by Dr Ollie Hart. Ollie has been a GP for over 20 years and is a clinical director of Heeley Plus PCN. Alongside this, Ollie is a director of a health coaching training company called  Peak Health Coaching. Peak Health Coaching deliver PCI accredited health coach training and have trained hundreds of health coaches across the UK. During the podcast  Ben and Ollie discuss how health coaching could help practices and PCNs improve health outcomes. In addition Ollie talks about his interest in pain management and speaks more about how he got into the health coaching world. Ollie shares information about the upcoming national conference he is holding on May 16th, what attendees can expect and how you can purchase tickets to the conference.

 

Introduction (0:09)

 

How Ollie first got into Health Coaching.. (0:58)

 

Applying Health Coaching into the GP role.. (1:55)

 

What works well? (2:50)

 

Ollie’s examples.. (4:01)

 

Is this approach practical in General Practice? (5:08)

 

Impacts ARR’s have made.. (6:17)

 

Ollie's tips for GPs with health coaches in place (7:11)

 

Are health coaches getting the right patients? (8:22)

 

What patients would benefit from health coaching? (9:15)

 

Is weight loss a good focus for health coaches? (10:17)

 

Thoughts on GP’s current model..  (11:14)

 

Ollie’s approach to health coaching in his PCN.. (13:01)

 

Resistance to health coaching.. (14:44)

 

Peak health coaching.. (16:36)

 

Who have you trained so far? (17:47)

 

Peak Health Coaching’s first national conference.. (18:39)

 

Further information about the conference.. (19:29)

 

Ben & Ollie discuss their views on health coaching.. (20:17)

 

For more information on the conference, visit their website here.

 

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