360 Health Clinic - ILM Brochure

360 HEALTH AS A GP, I KNOW THROUGH MY OWN EXPERIENCE THAT CLINICAL CARE IS NECESSARILY CONCERNED WITH THE How Integrated Lifestyle Medicine Can TREATMENT OF SYMPTOMS IN THE HERE AND NOW. Support Clinical Care While any good doctor will also offer advice and Integrated Lifestyle Medicine (ILM) guidance about steps a patient can take starts with the principle that it is at its themselves to reduce or mitigate the risk of a most effective when it works with recurring condition or further episodes of poor conventional clinical care to support a health, public health services are not designed patient’s health journey. to offer practical help to patients in implementing and managing those changes. But before we get to how ILM can achieve that, let’s begin by summarising what As doctors we know that our bodies are not just ILM is – and also what it is not... a collection of individual elements that operate independently of one another, but instead a highly evolved system of inter-dependent networked component parts. In this regard, ILM concentrates on prevention through marrying clinical care with lifestyle changes to effect the long-term health changes and strategies that lead to sustained outcomes. And because ILM, like clinical medicine, deals only in evidence-based and evidence-led care, its is ideally suited to providing the support for patients that specialist medical practitioners know is necessary, but are unable to provide directly themselves.

WHAT INTEGRATED WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE IS NOT INTEGRATED LIFESTYLE (BREAKING DOWN SOME OF MEDICINE FOR CONSULTANTS? THE ILM MYTHS) There are a great many benefits to using ILM Integrated Lifestyle Medicine is to enhance and augment the care you provide not a binary choice. It does not replace clinical care – in fact, to your patients. quite the reverse: it works best when it is used in conjunction 1. Expanded expertise: By working with an ILM practitioner, your with traditional healthcare patients will have access to multidisciplinary approaches. expertise, experience and knowledge that offers personalised support for the treatment It is not anti-pharma. ILM and care plan relating to chronic or specialist doctors share an aim to reduce conditions the need for pharmaceutical solutions, but this is no different 2. A joined-up approach to care: to our colleagues in clinical NHS ILM offers a 360 degree approach to care that helps patients to improve their general health practice. After all, we’re all in beyond the specific condition or conditions the business of curing people. Where prescription treatment is you are treating. in the best interests of patient 3. Improved clinical outcomes: health, pharmaceutical By working in partnership for better overall solutions are very much a part of health, rather than condition-specific an ILM approach – just as we recovery and rehabilitation, we can create would refer a patient to a better health outcomes for patients that in turn lead to greater patient satisfaction. consultant for specialist care. 4. Referrals from 360 Health: Because we value the specialist knowledge and expertise of the consultants we work with, our partnerships are wholly reciprocal, resulting in patient referrals from our practice where appropriate.

360 HEALTH WANT TO FIND OUT MORE? If all of that has made you curious to learn more about how ILM could help to support the care you provide to your patients, I’d love to share a virtual cup of coffee with you so I can answer any questions you might have, share some of our patients’ real life success stories and add some context to what you’ve just read. Get in touch at [email protected]