Lifescripts - Implementing Lifescripts - Practical Tips for GPs
Lifestyle Prescriptions (or Lifescripts) aims to build on current preventive activities being undertaken in General Practice. Lifescripts provides General Practice with tools to assist patients to make healthier lifestyle choices.
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. Lifescripts provides General Practice with tools to assist patients to make healthier lifestyle choices. 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.
The areas focused on by Lifescripts are:
• Smoking
• Nutrition
• Alcohol
• Physical Activity
• Weight Management
The resources developed to implement Lifescripts include:
• Waiting room materials - checklist, fliers, poster
• Assessment guidelines
• Assessment tools
• Prescription pads
• Medical record summary stickers
• Practice manual
• Division manual
• CD Rom (includes motivational interviewing component)
These resources are available electronically (see below) or in hard copy from the Division.
More information regarding Lifescripts is available from:
Australian Government Department of Health & Ageing
Please contact:
Louise Aloi
Ph: (03) 9347-1188
Fax: (03) 9347-7433
Email: louise.aloi@mgpn.com.au
