Patient’s and Public Home

Empowering you to take care of your own health using the principles of lifestyle medicine

Shifting care from hospitals to homes

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

Welcome, to BSLM’s Patient & Public Community page. Whilst the Charity has been going since 2016, to date our work has mostly been focused on upskilling Healthcare professionals gain the knowledge, skills and experience to support you with more sustainable lifestyle changes, we’re so excited to now be in a position to share a whole section of our website dedicated direct to patients and public.

We’d like to thank our Voices of Lived Experience group, aligned organisations and membership for continuing to build on this page to ensure maximum impact. If you have suggestions or resources, please get in touch

About Us

Find out more about our core VoLE team!

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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Member Benefits

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Patient Facing Resources

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

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Exclusive Promotions and Opportunities

BSLM partners with our Organisational Members and Aligned Organisations to provide members with exclusive discounts* through their BSLM membership!

^{*Patient & Public specific opportunities currently be identified}

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Regional Networking Groups

BSLM Members have fantastic opportunities to join our regional networking groups and chats, as well as the opportunity to attend regional meets – a great way to meet like-minded people in your community!

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Experiences & Recommendations

Join the BSLM Network to become a part of our member community and take part in the knowledge sharing, experiences and recommendations on materials others may have found helpful, from books, to podcast, related organisations and more

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Free and Discounted Event’s and Education

BSLM Members gain access free and discounted event’s and education, such as large discounts to the popular BSLM Annual Conference and BSLM courses free access to many past conferences, webinars and more

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Access our Special Interest Groups

BSLM Members who have a particular interest in certain areas, can access and partake in one of our many Special Interest Groups for focused research and resources! Share your perspective with our healthcare professional members and hear the most recent evidence and best practice

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Access to LM Physicians and Practitioners in a Member Directory

You’ll gain access to BSLM’s extensive member directory, where you can contact other members and Lifestyle Professional’s (professional memberships only – patient access coming soon)

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Have your say!

At BSLM we frequently go to our membership for opportunities to speak at BSLM events such as the BSLM Annual Conference’s, BSLM Monthly Webinars, or BSLM Study Days to share your perspective and help us deliver knowledge to our other members.

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Lifestyle Medicine Skills

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 for those living with chronic conditions.

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 ineffective^{1 2} but lifestyle medicine uses knowledge of behavioural science to support those changes. Some of these techniques have been shown to be at least 80% more effective in supporting behaviour change than traditional advice giving ³

The Skills of Lifestyle Medicine

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

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The Lifestyle Community

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.

Our voice of lived experience group was set up in 2024 and they have shaped and grown their voice to guide us in many ways, from initial naming conventions to having their voice heard throughout our community and more recently into service offering and membership benefits.

We’re so excited to see this new inclusion grow and develop!

Get Involved

As someone with lived experience who has felt benefit from Lifestyle Medicine, we’d love to hear your story. Contribute to our LM in practice page here by sharing your jounrey with us, or view the Lived Experience’s of others.

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