Emma speaks to Dr Ellen Fallows a GP in Northamptonshire and vice president of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine about what lifestyle medicine is and how it can help GPs to improve patient outcomes.
During this conversation Ellen explains how GPs can make use of lifestyle medicine in a 10-minute consultation, some of the evidence that supports the use of this approach to help improve outcomes for patients and how lifestyle medicine can help GPs tackle health inequalities.
This episode was presented by GPonline editor Emma Bower and produced by Czarina Deen.
Useful links
- British Society of Lifestyle Medicine
- How lifestyle medicine can help GPs tackle health inequalities
- Diabetes DIRECT trial
- The Food Mood Centre in Australia, Ellen mentions some research coming out from here during the interview
