This is a recording of a live conference that took place on 29 April 2025. This recording will be available to view until 12 February 2026.
Lifestyle medicine is a global medical discipline, teaching clinicians behavioural techniques to support patients with some of the root causes of ill health. These include assessing and addressing financial stress, poor mental wellbeing, social isolation, inactivity, poor quality food, poor sleep/shift work and harmful substances or behaviours such as smoking, alcohol and harmful tech use. Lifestyle medicine provides one-to-one assessment and support but requires wider public health population level interventions. The aim of these interventions is to prevent, treat and potentially reverse ill health whilst minimising the need for long-term medications.
This One Day Essentials lifestyle medicine conference will describe lifestyle medicine practice and how it is applied in everyday clinical practice for GPs. The conference will cover the RCGP GP with extended role in lifestyle medicine pathway, the evidence for lifestyle medicine and where it sits with population and public health, how this practice can be used to reduce health inequity, avoid over-diagnosis and over-prescribing. Speakers will also address how lifestyle medicine practice can be more sustainable medicine, can deliver person-centered care and recognises the wider aspects of wellbeing such as art and nature.
Learning objectives
- Define lifestyle medicine
- Describe how public pealth and population health interventions can be complemented by lifestyle medicine’s one-to-one support
- List the evidence for lifestyle medicine interventions
- Define over-diagnosis and over-prescribing and how lifestyle medicine can address these challenges
- Describe how lifestyle medicine can be used to address inequity
- List how lifestyle medicine can improve sustainable practice
- Describe how art and time in nature can improve health outcomes
Topics
- What is lifestyle medicine and introduction to RCGP GP with extended role in lifestyle medicine
- The evidence for lifestyle medicine and how it works with public and population health
- Lifestyle medicine is sustainable medicine and can improve planetary health
- Social prescribing, physical activity, green spaces
- Lifestyle medicine and health inequalities
- The challenge of over-diagnosis and over-prescribing; can lifestyle medicine help?
- How art and music can improve health
Conference chair
Dr Ellen Fallows - GP and expert in obesity and lifestyle medicine
Bronze sponsor
Symprove sponsored this conference. Editorial and content decisions were made solely by the RCGP.
