Prevention and Personalised Care for Modern Primary Care
Because prevention works best when it becomes part of everyday practice.
The Reality of Primary Care Today
Does this sound familiar?
- You're seeing increasing numbers of people with multiple long-term conditions.
- You know lifestyle factors matter, but consultations are short.
- You want to support prevention, not just treatment.
- You'd like more confidence discussing nutrition, movement, stress and sleep.
- You're looking for practical approaches that work in real-world practice.
PLM was developed to help clinicians address exactly these challenges.
What You’ll learn
Build Confidence in Prevention, Behaviour Change and Personalised Care
You'll gain practical knowledge and skills that can be applied immediately in consultations, helping you move beyond managing symptoms to addressing some of the underlying factors that influence long-term health and wellbeing.
Through flexible, evidence-based online learning, you'll discover how to:
- Have more effective conversations about lifestyle and long-term health
- Support sustainable behaviour change with confidence
- Take a whole-person approach to care and wellbeing
- Help people identify realistic, achievable health goals
- Address the lifestyle factors that influence many long-term conditions
- Strengthen personalised care and self-management support
- Bring prevention into routine primary care consultations
- Apply lifestyle medicine principles in a way that is realistic and achievable in everyday practice
The Programme Covers
- Nutrition and metabolic health
- Physical activity and movement
- Sleep and recovery
- Stress and mental wellbeing
- Social connection and community
- Behaviour change approaches
- Consultation and communication skills
- Lifestyle medicine in real-world practice
Through case studies, practical exercises and real-world examples, you'll learn how to translate evidence into action and support people to make meaningful, sustainable changes to their health and wellbeing.
Practical Tools for Everyday Consultations
PLM focuses on implementation, not just theory. Throughout the programme, you'll explore practical approaches that can be adapted and applied in real consultations to support prevention, personalised care and behaviour change.
You'll explore:
Consultation frameworks that support whole-person conversations
Behaviour change approaches that encourage sustainable action
Goal-setting techniques that help people identify achievable next steps
Self-management support for people living with long-term conditions
Whole-person assessment approaches that consider lifestyle and wider influences on health
Prevention-focused conversations that can be integrated into routine care
Designed around the realities of primary care, these tools can help you turn knowledge into action, build more meaningful conversations and support people in making lasting improvements to their health and wellbeing.
Why It Matters
Designed around the realities of primary care, these tools can help you turn knowledge into action, build more meaningful conversations and support people in making lasting improvements to their health and wellbeing.
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Helping You Turn Learning into Action
PLM is designed to help you build confidence and apply your learning in practice, with tools and resources that support you throughout your learning journey and beyond.
Measure Your Progress
Track how your confidence, motivation and ability to apply lifestyle medicine approaches develop over time, helping you reflect on your progress and identify areas for further growth.
Join a Community of Peers
Connect with like-minded health and care professionals who are exploring and applying lifestyle medicine approaches in their own practice. Share ideas, learn from others and gain inspiration from real-world experiences.
Access Practical Resources
Explore a wide range of downloadable practitioner resources, patient-facing materials, scientific reading and additional learning content, alongside a video and audio library designed to support implementation in everyday practice.
What Learners Say
It has given me the confidence that I need.
~ GP
My job satisfaction has definitely improved.
~ GP
It provided practical strategies for integrating lifestyle medicine into real-world clinical practice.
~ Health & Wellbeing Coach
This course completely changed how I approach consultations.
~ Nurse
Why Primary Care Teams Choose PLM:
- Evidence-Based Grounded in lifestyle medicine, behavioural science and personalised care.
- Practical Immediately applicable to practice.
- Flexible Online learning designed around busy working lives.
- Accredited Professional recognition and CPD opportunities.
Who Is This For?
Tailor specifically to primary care.
- Doctors
- GP Registrars
- Practice Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Pharmacists
- First Contact Practitioners
- Health and Wellbeing Coaches
- Social Prescribing Teams
- AHPs
- PCN multidisciplinary teams
Meet the Course Creators
PLM has been developed in partnership between Dr Rangan Chatterjee, Dr Ayan Panja and social enterprise Practice Unbound, bringing together clinical expertise, behaviour change insight and practical experience from frontline care.
Find Out More
Hear from our course creators Dr Ayan Panja and Dr Rangan Chatterjee how Prescribing Lifestyle Medicine can help you and your patients.
FAQs for Primary Care professionals
Yes. PLM has been designed to help GPs bring prevention, behaviour change and personalised care into everyday consultations. The programme combines evidence-based lifestyle medicine, practical consultation tools and behaviour change approaches that can be applied in real-world primary care settings.
Absolutely. Practice nurses play a vital role in supporting people living with long-term conditions and promoting healthier lifestyles. PLM provides practical skills, resources and confidence to support conversations around nutrition, movement, sleep, stress, self-management and behaviour change.
PLM is a self-paced online programme with 12 months' access from enrolment. The core PLM programme includes approximately 15 hours of learning. Learners who choose to complete the Certificate in Lifestyle Medicine can access around 30 hours of learning content.
Yes, PLM is an accredited programme. PLM and Cert LM are accredited by the Personalised Care Institute (PCI). PLM is accredited for 15 CPD hours, CertLM is accredited for 30 CPD hours
Yes. PLM is designed for busy health and care professionals. The programme is delivered online and can be completed at your own pace, allowing you to fit learning around clinical commitments and other responsibilities.
Yes. PLM is suitable whether you're completely new to lifestyle medicine or looking to build on existing knowledge. The programme provides a practical introduction to lifestyle medicine principles and shows how they can be applied confidently in everyday practice.
Yes. Multi-licence options are available for Primary Care Networks, practices and other organisations looking to support workforce development in prevention, personalised care and behaviour change. Visit our organisational learning page to find out more.
Current pricing and enrolment options can be found on our enrolment page.
If you're interested in enrolling multiple learners through your practice, PCN or organisation, please visit our organisational learning page or contact us to discuss multi-licence options.
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