Sixty seconds on . . . lifestyle advice

This sounds important—I’d better delay my jogYou may well want a sit down, especially if you’re tasked with delivering healthy lifestyle messages to patients on exercising more, losing weight, and stopping smoking. The onus on improving the population’s health seems to be falling increasingly to doctors, particularly as government policies have all but failed on certain issues such as stemming obesity rates, often because of fears about “nanny statism.”1I’m already run raggedThat’s exactly what a group of researchers are arguing. They say that, while lifestyle interventions can be effective, clinicians don’t have the time to deliver them—at least, not as the health service currently stands.How do the numbers work out?Researchers identified 57 NICE guidelines with 379 lifestyle intervention recommendations. They tried to estimate the time it would take to actually carry out these interventions—the time needed to treat (TNT)—and the workforce resources subsequently needed to enact the guidelines. They classified…
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