Izabella Natrins, Innes Kerr, Dr Dimple Devadas and Dr Joanna Fleming, senior leaders at the UK & International Health Coaching Association (UKIHCA), highlight the potential benefits, explore the challenges and offer potential solutions for cross-sector collaborations that integrate the delivery of health and physical activity services.
We know that sport and physical activity can support and even prevent many long-term health conditions. The sector’s Report ‘Unlocking the Potential’ asks if “the full power of sport, recreation and physical activity currently being fully harness in our nation?” It calls on Government to work with the sector and its members on delivering changes that will benefit millions of people across the country.
We know too, that health and wellbeing coaching, an evidence-based modality that supports and can prevent long-term lifestyle driven health conditions, has the potential to benefit millions of people across Britain. In its Report Towards a Healthier, Happier Britain: The Case for Health Coaching UKIHCA set out the pain points, evidence-based solutions and cross-sector recommendations.
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This session will give delegates an opportunity to gain insights into the synergies, power and benefits of cross-sector collaboration and will equip them to broaden their perspectives on the future of integrated health and physical activity services.
British Society of Lifestyle Medicine
Doctor (Board Certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician, General Practitioner, Scope Certified Obesity Specialist) | Psychology Coach | Educator | Award winning Content creator | Fitness Trainer | Entrepreneur | Serial volunteer
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Tutor & Examiner Institute of Health Sciences Education, Faculty of Medicine Queen Mary University of London
Learning Academy Associate, Lifestyle Medicine Core Accreditation Assessor, Regional Director, Special interest group Physical activity & Mental Health British Society of Lifestyle Medicine
Member of the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity
Member of the UK & International Health Coaching Association
Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners
Member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (2007)
Graduate Member The British Psychological Society
SCOPE Certified World Obesity Federation
Graduate GP Leadership in Obesity & Weight management (GLOW) Royal College of General Practitioners
GP Special interest Group Royal College of General Practitioners, National Centre for Creative Health
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UKIHCA
Innes has over 35 years experience in operations, marketing and senior management in the Health and Fitness Industry.
From hotel groups to the industry trade association, Innes has worked as a senior executive in some of the sector's leading organisations including
Group Operations Manager - De Vere Hotel Group, Operations & Marketing Director - Fitness First, Executive Director - The Fitness Industry Association (now UK Active), Operations Director - energie Fitness Franchise and Managing Director - energie Fitness Ireland.
In his current role as Director of Business Growth & Innovation at UK & International Health Coaching Association (UKIHCA), Innes now draws on all of this experience to promote the role of Health Coaching, grow the association and elevate the awareness of health coaching as an effective practice in personalised health care and health creation.
Recognising the value of health coaches in supporting individuals to achieve positive behaviour change, Innes is working hard to promote the practice of health coaching to the Physical Activity and Sports Sector, believing passionately that when integrated in to existing products and services, health coaching will improve attendance, adherence, retention and subsequently results for clients and operators, alleviating pressure on the health and care services.
UKIHCA
Izabella continues to build the very first, pioneering professional body for Health Coaching in the world. Standing for professionalism, community and enterprise she is committed to spreading the word that skilled, professional health coaches are not only changing lives, but that a health coaching approach transforms health professionals’ practice and will transform healthcare delivery systems– nationally and globally.
As a former Health Research Psychologist and a qualified Nutrition & Lifestyle Medicine Health Coach, Izabella takes a whole-health perspective on the bio-psycho-emotional-social-spiritual-environmental influences that make up an individual’s unique lived experience.
With over 30 years’ experience in the health, wellness and executive management space, her roles have included: Health Research Psychologist in Public Health Medicine, NHS/Department of Health Programme Manager and Managing Director of a Management & Organisational Development Consultancy. She is the author of THE REAL FOOD SOLUTION in support of the British Association of Holistic Medicine and Healthcare’s (BHMA) Real Food Campaign UK.
NHS Health and Wellbeing
Jo is passionate about helping people reach their full potential with health and wellbeing being at the heart of this. Physical activity forms one of the main cornerstones of her own life and she recognises the huge significance it has to living a healthy and happy life.
From her background in Sport and Exercise Sciences and Health Promotion, Jo was a former Research Fellow at Southampton, Edinburgh and St. Andrew's Universities. She gained a PhD from Warwick University, while working in the Division of Health Sciences, and later worked in the Unit of Academic Primary Care, where she served as Assistant Professor. In 2022 she gained a Level 5 Diploma in Integrated Health and Nutrition Coaching, and is currently completing her Level 3 Personal Training qualification.
In her current role as an NHS Health and Wellbeing Coach within a personalised care team, Jo supports patients across eight GP practices within the Leamington Spa Primary Care Network, where she delivers lifestyle clinics, one-to-one health coaching, physical activity sessions involving walking, running, swimming and ‘prambling’ (buggy walking!). She also presents and writes in the area of health coaching and lifestyle behaviour change to a variety of audiences. Jo also represents the UKIHCA as both a member and Physical Activity Ambassador, where she aims to raise awareness of the huge benefits that collaborations between health coaching professionals and physical activity professionals can bring to improving public health.
