Co-design
The North Lewisham PCN (NLPCN) Lifestyle Medicine Service was co-designed with the local community.
Service Model
The service is run by Health and wellbeing coaches and nutritionists hired via the ARRS PCN funding. The patients have a combination of one-to-one and group coaching sessions working through all 6 pillars of Lifestyle Medicine.
Evaluation
Patients who went through the service had their: blood pressure, height, weight, BMI and waist circumference measured, alongside self-reported visual analogue scales in each pillar of lifestyle medicine and a validated wellbeing score.
What we found
n=133
75% of patients that engaged with the service were at risk of health inequalities (as they fell within CORE20PLUS as a proxy for health inequalities).
n=90
Statistically significant improvements across all 6 self-reported outcome measures. Confidence intervals are large due to the nature of the service being open to all, but there were clear improvements in all categories.
To see our published abstract please click here (abstract No 58)