Nursing and Lifestyle Medicine

Supporting Nurses Through 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.

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

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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Knowledge of “The Six Pillars of Lifestyle Medicine”

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Proven techniques to support people to sustain lifestyle changes

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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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BSLM 2024 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:

12.45pm, 7th Nov, 2024 - 2.15pm, 7th Nov, 2024

Online Event

Your chance to get going with Group Clinics: Masterclass with Dr Rupa Joshi

The Experience Led Care Programme has joined forces with Dr Rupa Joshi – one of the UK’s most experienced group clinic practitioners – to offer a free masterclass to help you convert your passive interest into action.


9.00am, 8th Nov, 2024 - 5.00pm, 8th Nov, 2024

Headland Hotel, Newquay, Cornwall

Kernow Conference 2024

This years Kernow conference title is “One Health” which we hope encourages us all to think about the overlapping themes of people and planet, equal rights to health for all people and caring for ourselves as well as for our patients and clients.


10.15am, 12th Nov, 2024 - 3.20pm, 12th Nov, 2024

Online Zoom Webinar

BSLM Study Day – Reaching Underserved Communities

This study day aims to showcase the way our many Members are finding ways of ensuring lifestyle medicine gets to some of those underserved communities. This webinar is free to attend and open to all from Clinicians and practitioners working with these areas to patients interested in using lifestyle medicine to manage and prevent chronic illness. All those registered will receive the recording post event.


7.00pm, 19th Nov, 2024 - 8.00pm, 19th Nov, 2024

Online Webinars

British Society of Lifestyle Medicine Webinars

Available to BSLM Members in our monthly series, register for the next upcoming webinar, bringing in two new speakers exploring the evidence-based world with lifestyle medicine


Lifestyle Medicine Podcasts

Explore the different Lifestyle Medicine podcasts available through BSLM

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