Highly anticipated Autumn training cohorts begin

This month, Flow Coaching Academy (FCA) training has started in Lancashire & South Cumbria, Northumbria, and Sheffield, welcoming 70 new Flow Coaches from across the UK to the programmes network.

Each academy is delivering a programme that combines face-to-face teaching – be that virtually over a screen or in person – specialist e-learning modules and ongoing learning activities on the FCA’s online improvement community platform.

Lancashire & South Cumbria have welcomed 23 coaches from major trauma, neurology, pre-operative & Prehabilitation, DNACPR, pneumonia, pain management, emergency mental health, stroke, non-elective theatres & cauda equina.

Our faculty in Northumbria are looking to deliver some of their sessions in person, whilst encouraging their 20 coaches from Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust & Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust to engage with our exciting new e-learning materials, which have been created by an award-winning e-learning specialist – Unlikely Genius.

Thanks to the new online format, Sheffield have been able to onboard coaches from the UK’s Dementia Network, they have also mixed up their dedicated teaching faculty inviting Stuart Clough from FCA Lancashire & South Cumbria to join them in this upcoming cohort.

The training will run over 12 months and coaches are expected to graduate with their co-coaches in November 2022. They will work to establish their Big Room before February next year and will see improvements to the way patients receive care as part of this.

“In our efforts to future-proof the FCA programme we have spent a long time translating our learning materials into e-learning modules and sessions that would be accessible over a screen.

Nicola Platts, Programme Manager for the Flow Coaching Academy

“We are already running a virtual cohort in Sheffield, so its great to see our teaching faculties in Northumbria and Lancashire & South Cumbria start to engage with these materials and to share them with their current cohorts.

“We are looking forward to hearing feedback from the coaches about the new course format so we can continuously refine our training to best suit their needs. So far we have received an enormous amount of positive feedback from coaches who are part way through the course.”

“It’s been fantastic to be able to meet our third training cohort and welcome our colleagues from Northumbria and Gateshead to the programme.

Richard Curless, Consultant Physician and Medical Director from FCA Northumbria

“Our coaches are working in a wide range of areas including diabetes insulin pump service, setting patient discharge goals, surgical pre-assessment, improve theatres flow, same day emergency care, nurse led discharge, delirium, post-surgery nutrition and emergency assessment unit (EAU) flow.”

Ben Morris, Programme Improvement Lead from FCA Lancashire & South Cumbria said: “We are delighted to have started our second cohort in Lancashire & Cumbria and we are excited to find out more about our coaches and their areas of work. It has been lovely to meet with our new cohort in person (whilst social distancing) and the cohort group are forming a great bond together.