Read my publications on medical and public health coaching and leadership

Day FJ, Snape V, Gardner D et al.  Evidence-based public health leadership development: A systematic review and urgent call to include psychological theory. Public Health, Volume 253, 2026, 106178

Day FJ, Mentis A, Lu C, et al. What is the evidence base for leadership coaching for postgraduate medical doctors? A scoping review. BMJ Leader Published Online First: 11 November 2025. doi: 10.1136/leader-2025-001249

Hepworth C, Day F, Poate-Joyner A. How can coaching and coaching psychology avoid doing harm and do good for coachees, specifically those who have underlying mental health concerns? Calls to action and practical suggestions to ensure ethical practice. International Coaching Psychology Review 20 (1); 2025; 23-35

Day FJ et al. How can I prepare for a general election? BMJ 2024; 385 :q1371 doi:10.1136/bmj.q1371

Day F. Lessons in leadership with Fiona Day, medical and public health leadership coach. FMLM 2024.

Day F et al. Covid – ‘Behaviour matters, Psychology matters’: Psychologists addressed the British Psychological Society’s Senate on lessons learned, and what is needed now. British Psychological Society, May 2024.

Day FJ. How the ‘Health Leader-as-Coach’ benefits health leaders, their teams, peers, organisation and the system. BMJ Leader Published Online First: 03 April 2024. doi: 10.1136/leader-2023-000870

Day FJ, Hothi D. Can coaching advance medical leadership development? BMJ Leader Published Online First: 01 March 2024. doi: 10.1136/leader-2023-000853

Day FJ,  et al. Understanding the evidence base for leadership coaching for medical doctors: a rapid scoping review protocol (2024. Protocol)

Day FJ et al. BMJ. 20 January 2024 p82. How can our team move past a traumatic event?

Day FJ. Psychologically informed leadership coaching positively impacts the mental well-being of 80 senior doctors, medical and public health leaders. BMJ Leader 2023;7:301-303.  If you don’t have access to BMJ Leader, you can read the full prepublication soft copy here.

Day F. GP Online; October 2023. How to flourish as a GP by learning from the good and the difficult

Fiona Day. Book review: Third wave cognitive behavioural coaching: Contextual, behavioural and neuroscience approaches for evidence-based coaches. Edited by Jonathan Passmore & Sarah Leach, Pavilion Publishing, 2022. In The Coaching Psychologist, Vol. 18, No. 2, December 2022. Here is a pre-publication version of the article.

Prudenzi A, et al. A workplace Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) intervention for improving healthcare staff psychological distress: A randomised controlled trial. PLOSONE. April 2022.

Day F. Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM) Blog. March 2022. What is the difference between coaching and mentoring?

Day F. Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM) Blog. Feb 2022. Developing psychologically safe cultures while also commanding and controlling.

Prudenzi, A et al. Group-based acceptance and commitment therapy interventions for improving general distress and work-related distress in healthcare professionals : a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2021; 295. pp. 192-202.

Day, Fiona. Adult Development Theory: growing medical leadership capability in response to a metamodern cultural pandemic. BMJ Leader Blog, August 2021

Day, Fiona. Metamodernism- are you ready for a cultural pandemic? BMJ Leader Blog, July 2021

Day F. Public health leaders have been exceptional but we need a whole new approach to society. BMJ letters, April 2021

Day F. Coping through covid-19: commissioned BMJ Opinion article, March 2020

Day F. What does the global climate emergency mean for UK healthcare leaders?Health Service Journal commissioned article, May 2019

Day, F. Finding Help. In Staten, A (Editor). Combatting Burnout: a guide for medical students and junior doctors. 2019, CRC Press. 

Publications from my former medical and public health career

Wilding S, et al. Cluster randomized controlled trial of volitional and motivational interventions to improve bowel cancer screening uptake: A population-level study. Social Science and Medicine,2020 Nov:265:113496

Day F. The Challenge of Multimorbidity and Programme Budgeting. Rapid Response. BMJ 24.9.12

Day F, Pollock C, Brook C, Albus A. Crucial for Population Health. BMJ 2010;340:c2125

Day F, Cassels-Brown A, Buchan JC, Fear, J et al. A Glaucoma Equity Profile: correlating disease distribution with service provision and uptake in a population in Northern England, UK. Eye 24, 1478–1485 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.2010.73

Day FJ, Mok J. Children affected by domestic abuse while abroad on holiday. Arch Dis Child. May 2008;93(5):362-3. 

Day FJ, Sutton G. General Practitioner notifications of gastroenteritis and food poisoning: cause for concern. J Public Health. Sep 2007;29(3):288-91.

Day FJ, Clegg S, McPhillips M, Mok J . A retrospective case series of skeletal survey in children with suspected non-accidental injury. J Clinical Forensic Medicine 2006; 13 (2): 55-59

Nsutebu E, Day F. Chemical Incidents and Major Fires in West Yorkshire. Chemical Hazards and Poisons Report, Health Protection Agency May 2005(4): 24

Day FJ, Nettleton B. The Scottish Borders General Practitioners Exercise Referral Scheme. Health Bulletin 2001; 59(5): 343-346