GP mentoring

Mentoring can provide support in the constantly changing NHS environment and lead to enhanced performance, job satisfaction and leadership skills. It can provide advice, guidance and support.

A list of schemes that you might find helpful can be found below.

  • Akeso Coaching Network

    A Community Interest Company, which supports professionals working in primary care who feel they might benefit from time to reflect on issues that impact on their work and life – ranging from skills and performance to more developmental areas. A trained colleague within the Akeso network will facilitate confidential sessions.

    Akeso Coaching Network offers coaching and mentoring in the following areas:

    Bedfordshire Luton and Milton Keynes

    Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

    Herts and West Essex

    Norfolk and Waveney

    Suffolk and North East Essex

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  • Essex Practice Manager Supporter Scheme

    A scheme managed by Essex LMC, where Practice Manager Supporters provide ad-hoc help, advice and support to new, experienced and assistant Practice Managers.

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  • GPMplus Peer Mentoring Programme

    GPMplus provides a streamlined model of mentoring delivered by trained mentors who all have experience of working in frontline General Practice.

    If you are interested in receiving free peer mentoring support and you are a GP, Practice / Business Manager, Nurse, or practice staff with leadership responsibilities and you work in West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, East Yorkshire & Hull and North & North East Lincolnshire, please get in touch via the website.

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  • GP-S

    A free peer mentoring, coaching and signposting service for GPs in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Sheffield, Telford & Wrekin and Shropshire and Essex.

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  • Royal College of General Practitioners: Find a Mentor Scheme

    Whether you are starting out on your GP journey or contemplating retirement you will constantly be coming across career challenges. More often than not, there will have been someone out there who has been through similar experiences and can help by providing you with sound guidance and inspiration on how to move forward.

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  • South East London Mentoring Scheme

    Available to all GPs working in any capacity in South East London who would like mentoring. The scheme includes six mentoring sessions and a committed mentor for up to one year. Sessions last between 60 – 90 minutes. Mentors are experienced GPs with mentoring qualifications who would like to support other GPs. For further information please contact:

    p.wiggins@nhs.net

  • Wessex LMC GP Support and Development Scheme

    The scheme aims to help those who are facing difficulties that are causing them to feel unsettled in their working life and provides mentoring and coaching services. The scheme is open to all GPs working as either a Partner or Salaried within Wessex LMC membership practices located in Hampshire, IOW, Dorset, Wiltshire, Swindon, Bath & North East Somerset and the Channel Islands.

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