Nursing and Lifestyle Medicine

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Transforming healthcare and levelling health inequalities through lifestyle medicine


BSLM is a community of healthcare professionals and patients, committed to a new approach to healthcare, based on the emerging discipline of lifestyle medicine.

About Us


The BSLM is an independent charity set up to promote the role of lifestyle medicine in improving people’s health and wellbeing. We empower healthcare professionals to support patients to prevent, manage and even reverse many chronic conditions through education and connection to our like-minded community.

Lifestyle Medicine is evidence-based, clinical care that supports behaviour change through person-centred techniques to improve mental wellbeing, social connection, healthy eating, physical activity, sleep and minimisation of harmful substances and behaviours.

It acknowledges the need for action on socio-economic determinants of health, provides education around the 6 key pillars as well proven techniques to sustain lifestyle changes.

We now have more than 3000 members focusing on multi-disciplinary teams including primary and secondary care clinicians, allied and public health professionals, scientists, educators, researchers and patients.

What is Lifestyle Medicine?


BSLM’s 3 Principles of Lifestyle Medicine

Acknowledge the Need for Action on Socioeconomic Determinants of Health

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Proven techniques to support people to sustain lifestyle changes

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Knowledge of “The Six Pillars of Lifestyle Medicine”

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The Six Pillars Of Lifestyle Medicine

Learn the evidence behind the six key pillars that form the lifestyle medicine principles

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Free Resources

Access a range of free lifestyle medicine evidence and resources, designed to equip you with key lifestyle medicine knowledge

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#1Change

Improving our health and wellbeing through lifestyle medicine starts with #1change. Find out more about our campaign to think big by starting small.

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Memberships

Whether you’re a healthcare professional, patient, student or member of the public, there is a membership option for everyone.

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Learning Academy

Explore the range of world-class learning options available, ranging from comprehensive certifications to introductory courses.

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Annual Conference

Our flagship annual conference, featuring industry-leading insight on a range of topical and important areas within healthcare

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Core Accreditation

An interactive, immersive programme which will provide learners with the attitudes and theoretical knowledge behind Lifestyle Medicine.

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The Skills of Lifestyle Medicine

Find out about the different evidence-based techniques used to support behaviour change

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Ensuring lifestyle medicine education gets to those that need it the most is critical, but education alone is not enough to create sustainable lifestyle changes. There are various skills that have proven to be successful in supporting patients in this regard.

Lifestyle medicine calls for a move away from the traditional doctor-patient relationship where the clinician is the expert information provider. This is needed because we now know that giving simple lifestyle advice such as “eat less and move more” is often ineffective1 2

To be effective in supporting lifestyle change, lifestyle medicine uses knowledge of behavioural science to work with patients. This way we can work with people and their values to support problem solving and equip them with skills to make the changes they want to make. Some of these techniques have been shown to be at least 80% more effective in supporting behaviour change than traditional advice giving 3

Our members include primary and secondary care clinicians, allied and public health professionals, scientists, educators, researchers and patients.

We’re united by a shared commitment to lifestyle medicine, as an effective, evidence-informed approach to preventing, managing and treating lifestyle-related chronic conditions.

We want to reframe healthcare to focus on the lifestyle factors which are the root cause of most chronic illnesses. We support positive behaviour change and improved public health education.

We also believe change is needed at the societal level – to address the ‘upstream’ causes of chronic, lifestyle-related disease such as deprivation, health inequality, social isolation and a lack of hope.

We are an independent, charitable organisation with no religious or political affiliations.

All our work is driven by science and informed by evidence.

What’s Going on at BSLM?


View the Latest BSLM Events:

9.00am, 28th Jun, 2025 - 5.00pm, 28th Jun, 2025

Royal College of Physicians, London

Lifestyle Medicine ‘Food & Mood’ Masterclass: From Evidence to Implementation

BSLM and the Food & Mood Academy are teaming up for a collaborative in-person event, followed by a practical online ‘Review, Reflect, Reset’ session to ensure successful application of your learning


10.30am, 29th Jun, 2025 - 1.30pm, 29th Jun, 2025

St James Park, London, SW1A 2BJ

London Regional Meet-Up

Join us for the London Regional Meet on June 29th! We will be meeting outside St James Park SW1A 2BJ at 10:30AM.


12.00am, 12th Sep, 2025

Virtual, Online

A Guide to Social Prescribing

This conference will focus on increasing the scale and impact of social prescribing as outlined in the NHS long term plan. We will take a practical case study based approach to assessing, monitoring and improving the health outcomes of people who typically experience health inequalities. BSLM Members get 20% off!


8.00am, 18th Sep, 2025 - 3.00pm, 20th Sep, 2025

DoubleTree by Hilton Brighton Metropole - Brighton

BSLM 2025 Annual Medical Conference

Join us this year for our biggest conference yet! From the 18th of September until September 20th, BSLM are in Brighton to host our annual medical conference, bringing in speakers from across the globe to provide expert insight into all aspects of lifestyle medicine.


Lifestyle Medicine Podcasts

Explore the different Lifestyle Medicine podcasts available through BSLM

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