Lifestyle Medicine course summary

Lifestyle medicine is about more than offering advice. It’s about understanding what influences health and helping patients make meaningful, lasting changes. This practical course explores the evidence behind lifestyle medicine and its role in preventing, managing and treating long-term conditions. 

 

Designed for busy healthcare professionals, this course will help you develop a deeper understanding of the wider factors that affect health, develop practical skills across the six pillars of lifestyle medicine, and learn effective behaviour change and health coaching techniques that support whole-person care. 

 

The course also looks beyond individual consultations, exploring how lifestyle medicine can be embedded across practices, primary care networks and local communities to improve patient outcomes. 

What we cover

  • Why is lifestyle medicine needed?
  • The scale of the problem 
  • What is a modern developed lifestyle?
  • The social determinants of health 
  • 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine - nutrition; physical activity; sleep; minimising harmful substances; mental wellbeing and stress; healthy relationships
  • Putting lifestyle medicine into practice - as a practice and at network/cluster level
  • National initiatives e.g. Active and parkrun
  • Group consultations
  • Health coaching and behaviour change
  • Starting a walk, jog or swim group at your practice, network or cluster
  • Completing the Red Whale Lifestyle Medicine course and reading the associated articles will provide the additional training required to practice as a GP with an extended role in lifestyle medicine (GPwERLM).

Who is the Lifestyle Medicine course for?

Designed for the whole primary care team, this course is ideal for: 

  • GPs
  • GP Registrars
  • Clinical Pharmacists
  • Dieticians
  • Health and Wellbeing Coaches
  • Social Prescribers
  • Physiotherapists
  • Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Practice Nurses. 

Get certified for less!

Completing the material in this course and reading the associated articles can be used to meet the RCGP defined requirements to practise as a GPwERLM and support your ongoing education and clinical practice. 

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Meet the team

Dr Hussain Al-Zubaidi 

GP and Lifestyle Medicine and Obesity Medicine Course Lead

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Dr Kate Grint

GP and Red Whale Clinical Director

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Dr Nik Kendrew

GP and Podcast Lead

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Dr Lucy Jenkins

GP and Red Whale Clinician

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Dr Susan Waldron

GP and Urgent and On-The-Day Primary Care Course Lead

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Dr Michael Horsfield 

GP and MSK and Chronic Pain Course Lead

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Dr Lee David

GP and Mental Health and CAMH Course Lead

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Red Whale Knowledge included

All of our full day courses come with 12 months membership to Red Whale Knowledge. It’s a super handy, trusted year-round learning resource!

 

What’s included:

  • 900+ online resources with super‑fast search  
  • Clear, practical summaries for real-world primary care
  • 70 GEMS (Guidelines and Evidence Made Simple)
  • Regularly updated content throughout the year  
  • Concise, clinician-centred learning when you need it 
  • CPD tracker with optional FourteenFish linkup.

 

Ideal for you if…   
You want quick, trusted, resources to support safe, confident practice. 

Ready to buy our Lifestyle Medicine course?

Live Digital Course

£210

Pay Monthly

Red Whale Unlimited

£39.95 per month

(12 month minimum term)
Unlimited access to any online course on demand 24/7
Attend live-hosted online events for ANY Red Whale course
450+ video 'Bytes' — bite-sized on demand learning
Access any live-hosted Lifestyle Medicine online event
Access Lifestyle Medicine on demand
Red Whale Knowledge access — 900+ searchable articles and GEMS
CPD tracking and FourteenFish integration

What our customers say about the Lifestyle Medicine course

“ This course gives me the confidence to introduce lifestyle concepts into everyday consults as the evidence for the advice is clear. ”
“ The whole course has been very informative as to how to start a consultation regarding lifestyle and communication skills tips to adopt during such consultations. ”
“ Lots of useful tips. A lot of common sense but incorporates things available to anyone no matter social status, ethnicity, culture, age or gender. There's something in lifestyle medicine for everyone. ”

Frequently asked questions

Who is this course suitable for?

The course is suitable for all primary care professionals, including GPs, nurses, pharmacists and allied healthcare professionals. 

Is the course available on demand?

Yes. You can attend live or access the course on demand. Our flexible online learning approach allows you to learn at a pace that works for you. 

How much CPD does the course provide?

The course includes 6 CPD hours and a downloadable certificate. 

What practical skills will I gain?

You'll develop health coaching skills, behaviour-change techniques and practical approaches to applying lifestyle medicine in everyday consultations. 

Why is lifestyle medicine important?

Lifestyle factors play a major role in many long-term conditions. Understanding how to support positive change can help improve patient outcomes and wellbeing. 

Training for your whole team

Whether you're organising learning for a practice, PCN, ICB, Training Hub or wider organisation, we can deliver the Lifestyle Medicine course in a way that meets your local needs.

 

  • Tailor timings and emphasis to your local needs and priorities  
  • Reduce admin by letting our team handle registrations, reminders and certificates  
  • Combine this medical education with other Red Whale topics to create a bespoke programme.  
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