Posted : September 13, 2005

Lifestyle Prescriptions

Lifestyle Prescriptions (or Lifescripts) aims to build on preventive activities being undertaken in the primary health care system. Lifescripts provides general practice with tools to assist patients to make healthier lifestyle choices. Building on work undertaken on the SNAP lifestyle risk factors Lifescripts covers those risk factors (Smoking, Nutrition, Alcohol and Physical activity) and adds weight management as an additional risk factor.

Lifescripts provides a framework for GPs, Practice Nurses and staff in the general practice setting to bring lifestyle risk factors to the fore in their engagement with patients.

Implementing Lifescripts involves:

• discussing risk factors with patients;
  
• setting lifestyle change goals;
  
• providing written lifestyle prescriptions;
  
• organising ongoing review of lifestyle risk factors; and
  
• referring patients to other services that support healthy lifestyle choices.

To access an information sheet on Lifescripts see file list below.

Lifestyle Prescriptions - Files
Title	Author	Downloads
Lifestyle Prescriptions Information Sheet	ADGP	View File
Lifescripts Newsletter No 1, July 2005	ADGP	View File
Lifescripts Newsletter No 2, October 2005	ADGP	View File

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