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Lifestyle Medicine
What is Lifestyle Medicine?
If you’re looking to stay well, reduce risk and feel better our GP-Led Lifestyle Medicine service provides structured, evidence-based support tailored to you.
Lifestyle Medicine supports individuals to optimise their health by addressing the 6 core pillars of lifestyle:
- Nutrition
- Physical activity
- Sleep
- Mental Wellbeing – including stress management
- Reduced exposure to harmful substances
- Social connectivity
Rather than focusing solely on medical treatment, lifestyle medicine takes a structured, personalised approach to improving long-term health outcomes.
Our GP-led Lifestyle Medicine service provides education, counselling and practical support in a private outpatient setting. It is ideal for individuals seeking to improve metabolic health, reduce future health risks or address lifestyle factors contributing to existing medical and psychological conditions.
The aim of this service is to identify and address health risks that arise from long-term lifestyle patterns. Many of the most common and serious conditions seen in modern healthcare, including cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, hypertension, dementia and certain cancers are strongly influenced by modifiable lifestyle factors. By proactively addressing these risks, it is possible to significantly improve both your current and future prospects.
Patients benefit from the direct support of an experienced GP throughout the process. This ensures that advice is medically informed, clinically appropriate and aligned with your individual health background.
All recommendations are grounded in current medical evidence. Your care plan is not generic or “one size fits all”, it is carefully personalised to reflect your medical history, risk profile, goals, preferences and readiness for change, helping to create sustainable and meaningful improvements in your health.
How we can help
Our Lifestyle Medicine doctors provide structured assessment and personalised support to address conditions including:
- Weight management and metabolic health
- Prediabetes and insulin resistance
- High blood pressure and cardiovascular risk reduction
- Cholesterol management
- Fatty liver disease (following medical diagnosis)
- Stress management and burnout recovery
- Sleep optimisation
- Behaviour change and sustainable habit formation
- Preventative health and longevity strategies
- Anxiety and depression
- Conditions caused by chronic inflammation
Consultations are tailored to your personal health goals, medical history and lifestyle, with realistic, evidence-based plans designed for long-term success.
Our Lifestyle Medicine Service
Who this clinic is for:
- Adults seeking structured support to improve overall health and wellbeing, in particular to help you feel better now and improve fatigue/energy levels
- Individuals with medically investigated chronic conditions who wish to address contributing lifestyle factors
- Patients seeking weight management or metabolic optimisation
- Individuals with cardiovascular risk factors (e.g. raised blood pressure or cholesterol)
- People who want to take proactive steps to protect their long-term health and reduce their risk of future health problems
- Those looking for structured support to make sustainable lifestyle changes
- Age criteria: Adults aged 18 years and over
Who this clinic is not designed for:
- Acute or urgent medical symptoms
- Medically uninvestigated symptoms
- Patients requiring emergency or urgent medical care
- Patients seeking replacement for their NHS GP primary care services
- Patients requiring specialist psychiatric or eating disorder services
- Prescriptions or complex medical monitoring beyond lifestyle scope
- Patients seeking GLP-1 medication (e.g. mounjaro) for weight loss. Learn more about our Weight Management Clinic
Clinician Details
- Dr John Ribchester
- GP with a Diploma in Lifestyle Medicine (Dip ACLM/BSLM)
Price List
Bookable appointments
We offer a free, no-obligation 10-minute pre-enrolment phone call, which can be booked via our website.
Following the call, if you wish to proceed, you can choose from two package options:
Standard Package - £500:
- Pre-consultation questionnaire
- A 60 minute face-to-face consultation
- Creation of a personalised health plan
- A 40 minute face-to-face follow up consultation to discuss and agree targets
- Continuous online support from your lifestyle medicine GP
Extended Package - £690:
- Above as per standard package, plus:
- 3 further 20 minute face-to-face follow up appointments
Additional 20 minute follow-up Lifestyle Medicine Consultation - £80
What to expect at your appointments
Initial Lifestyle Medicine Consultation
Your first appointment is a comprehensive consultation with a lifestyle medicine GP (‘LM GP’) designed to understand you as a whole person - not just your symptoms.
Before you attend
You will complete a detailed lifestyle and health questionnaire. This allows your LM GP to review your medical background in advance and ensures your appointment time is focused, thorough and productive.
During your consultation
You will meet with a fully qualified LM GP who has additional accredited qualifications and training in Lifestyle Medicine (from the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine). This means your care is grounded in medical expertise and the latest evidence-based guidance.
Together you will explore:
- Your medical history and current health concerns, ‘what matters to you’
- Medications, investigations and risk factors
- Your personal goals and priorities
- Your core lifestyle pillars: nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress and emotional wellbeing, social connection and exposure to harmful substances.
We take time to understand the root contributors to your symptoms and long-term health risks. Whether your goal is prevention of chronic disease, improving symptoms such as fatigue, or reducing the impact of an existing condition, your plan will be tailored specifically to you.
After your consultation - Personalised Health Plan
You will receive a clear, structured personalised health plan designed to support realistic, sustainable change - delivered with the reassurance of medical oversight and clinical expertise.
Follow-up Lifestyle Medicine Consultation
Follow-up appointments provide ongoing support, monitoring and careful refinement of your personalised health plan.
We will review your progress in detail - including how you are feeling, any measurable changes, and progress towards your goals. We will explore any barriers you have encountered and adjust your plan to ensure results are achieved safely, sustainably and in line with current evidence.
These LM GP follow-up consultations also allow us to review relevant measurements, medications and investigation, and to advise on any further testing if clinically appropriate.
Key Feature - Continuous Clinical Support
Lifestyle change takes motivation over time. All our packages allow patients to access secure messaging support between consultations, so you’re not left trying to navigate challenges alone.
You can send updates or questions through our secure online form and your LM GP will respond promptly. This provides reassurance, accountability and timely guidance as you implement your personalised health plan.
For safety, this service is intended for support and guidance related to your personalised health plan and does not replace your usual GP or any emergency medical services.
Extended Package
The Extended Package is designed to provide structured, ongoing support and monitoring as you implement and embed lifestyle changes over time. It allows space to explore more complex or detailed issues, monitor progress in symptoms and health markers, and refine your plan as needed.
This package includes three additional 20-minute GP consultations.
These follow-up appointments can be used flexibly to:
- Review progress and symptom improvement
- Adjust and optimise your personalised plan
- Introduce additional strategies in a stepwise, sustainable way
- Review measurements, medications or investigations where appropriate
The extended format supports accountability, clinical oversight and gradual, lasting change.
If you are looking to “stay well, reduce risk and feel better”, our GP-led Lifestyle Medicine service provides structured, evidence-based support tailored to you.
Book your consultation today, we look forward to working together.
Scope of Service & Medical Disclaimer
This lifestyle medicine service provides education, counselling and support to help individuals optimise their health by making evidence-based lifestyle changes. The service focuses on optimising health to decrease chances of chronic disease, also on supporting individuals with established and medical diagnoses’ to address contributing lifestyle factors.
This service:
- Is not a substitute for medical diagnosis or treatment
- Does not provide acute medical care or emergency services
- Does not replace your registered GP or specialist care
If you have new, worsening, or concerning symptoms, you must seek assessment from your own GP or appropriate medical service.
Participation in this programme is intended for individuals who:
- Have already had appropriate medical investigation for ongoing symptoms, or
- Are seeking support for optimising their health, weight management, metabolic health, or risk reduction
You remain responsible for maintaining contact with your NHS GP and other healthcare providers regarding diagnosis, prescriptions, monitoring and ongoing medical management.