Overview
A career in General Practice is both meaningful and fulfilling, offering variety, autonomy, and strong relationships with patients and teams.
Alongside these rewards, the role can be complex, pressured, and occasionally isolating. Our Support Services are here to help you navigate challenges, build confidence, and feel supported – professionally and personally – throughout your career.
Whether you’re seeking confidential professional support, leadership and management guidance, coaching, training and development, or signposting to trusted external resources, our offers are designed around the real needs of those working in General Practice in Devon.
All support is delivered with discretion, care, and an understanding of the realities of practice life. Explore our services below to find the right support for you.
Professional Support Service
A confidential, trusted service offering sensitive, timely professional support.
Our Professional Support Service offers confidential, trusted support for GPs, Practice Managers, Lead Practices Nurses and other members of the practice leadership team working in Devon.
It’s there for moments when things feel complicated, heavy or hard to carry alone; whether that’s pressure within a partnership, concerns about workload or wellbeing, or navigating a challenging professional situation. The service provides timely, sensitive guidance, tailored to your individual circumstances, with the aim of helping you feel supported, listened to, and clearer about your next steps.
Leadership and Management Support
Practical, proportionate support when leadership challenges feel complex
Our Leadership and Management Support Service is designed to support partnerships and practice leadership teams when challenges arise that feel difficult to resolve alone, or where pressures begin to impact stability, performance, or relationships within the practice.
This service focuses on the practice as a whole, supporting partners and leadership teams to step back, understand what’s happening, and work constructively towards resolution. It is particularly valuable where issues are complex, sensitive, or have the potential to escalate if left unaddressed.
Support is collaborative and proportionate. We work with you to understand the context, clarify the issues, and agree a practical plan to move things forward in a way that protects relationships, supports sustainability and maintains focus on patient care.
Coaching Services
Confidential, fully funded coaching to support reflection, clarity and professional growth.
Devon LMC offers two fully funded, confidential coaching services, tailored specifically for General Practitioners and Practice Managers working in Devon.
Coaching provides protected space to pause, reflect and think clearly – whether you are navigating challenge, change, or simply want time to focus on your own development.
Training and Development
Supporting confident, capable leadership across General Practice in Devon.
General practice is demanding, fast-moving, and constantly evolving. Our training and development programmes are designed to support the people at the heart of it, helping you build confidence, capability, and resilience at every stage of your career.
From understanding how general practice works, to developing leadership skills and preparing future system leaders, our programmes are practical, values-led, and rooted in the real challenges faced by practices across Devon.
They are fully funded for members and delivered in supportive, collaborative settings that prioritise learning, connection, and reflection.
External Support
Signposting to trusted support outside of the LMC.
Alongside our in-house services, we also provide signposting to trusted external sources of support. This includes organisations and services that offer specialist advice, wellbeing support, and professional guidance where additional or alternative support may be helpful.