Doctors should adopt healthy habits to help encourage the uptake of physical activity and lifestyle medicine programmes in primary care patients, an RCGP workshop heard.
LIVERPOOL –"Healthy doctors make healthy patients", stated a GP during a workshop at the Royal College of General Practitioners annual meeting. The session aimed to encourage GPs to embed lifestyle medicine into primary care through collaborative action.
Leese stressed the importance of short but effective discussions between GPs and patients. He gave examples of online resources to recommend to patients, such as Moving Medicine, which aims to help healthcare professionals integrate physical activity into routine clinical conversations, or the RCGP toolkit .
However, Leese acknowledged the need to tailor physical activity advice to different age groups. For example,"in an 80-year-old, physical activity might improve their balance and they're less likely to fall and break something." , originating from the Leamington Primary Care Network , as an example of successful lifestyle medicine integration to help address the needs of people living with chronic conditions.
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