News and Events

  • Monthly Educational Meetings

    Our next online meeting will be

    7pm on 17th December.

    There is no educational meeting in November due to our in-person annual conference.

  • In this episode of the HSE Talking Health & Wellbeing Podcast, host Noreen Turley explores the concept of social prescribing with Dr. Sean Owen, a GP and chair of the Climate Health Alliance of Ireland, and Dr. Aleisha Clarke, the HSE National Program Manager for Mental Health and Wellbeing. They explain how social prescribing aims to connect individuals with local community resources to meet their social, emotional, and practical needs and discuss that sometimes it’s not just about medical solutions; it’s about holistic care that considers the whole person moving beyond traditional medical solutions to a more holistic approach to healthcare. Sean acknowledges that integrating social prescribing into primary care requires a cultural shift among healthcare providers. He demonstrates how social prescribing has been successfully integrated into his practice, where link workers have become an essential part of the healthcare team. Once referred, they work with a link worker to co-develop a personalised health and wellbeing plan tailored to their specific needs and circumstances. This individualised support is crucial, as link workers take the time to understand each person's unique needs. Listeners are encouraged to visit the All-Ireland Social Prescribing website.

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  • Register Now for Conference 2024

    Join us on 16 November 2024 in RCSI for our 2nd annual conference. Registration, speaker bios, and full scientific programme:

    Conference 2024
May Educational Meeting
May
28

May Educational Meeting

Una Martin is a registered advanced nurse practitioner in rheumatology at University Hospital Waterford. Having been awarded a clinical bursary from the RCSI school of nursing & midwifery she has spent the last 12 months working with a team to produce a booklet to support patients living with arthritis and managing lifestyle entitled “Living your best life – a simple guide to living with arthritis”

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November Educational Meeting
Nov
28

November Educational Meeting

Join us for our next virtual educational meeting. Caroline Cummings, Chartered Physiotherapist and Martina Meegan who teaches the NHS Yoga4Health programme will be talking about prescribing yoga, its evidence base, clinical use, and the Yoga4Health programme.

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Conference
Jun
17

Conference

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our sold-out first in-person conference at RCSI, Dublin on Saturday morning the 17th of June 2023. ISLM was delighted to welcome Dr Beth Frates MD, lifestyle medicine pioneer, current president of American College of Lifestyle medicine and Medical Director of Lifestyle medicine for the Department of Surgery at Mass General Hospital, USA as the key note speaker. Thank you as well to our sponsor and to our host, RCSI, the first university in Ireland to offer an undergraduate programme in lifestyle medicine improving the lives of the medical students and their future patients.

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September ISLM Meeting
Sep
27

September ISLM Meeting

We are delighted to welcome Prof. Barbara Ryan, Consultant Gastroenterologist and Clinical Professor, Trinity College Dublin to speak at our virtual meeting at 8pm on Tuesday 27th September 2022 on "The Gut Experts' 'TEAMS' approach to managing IBS: A Paradigm for managing most medical conditions!"

This will be followed by updates from last weeks British Society of Lifestyle Medicine Conference.

Membership of ISLM will be coming in 2023. In the interim if you are a registered Healthcare Professional please sign up to our mailing list for details on joining this event and to hear about our next events.


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Further events

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