We’re a team of GPs specialising in lifestyle medicine, passionate about helping people achieve their best possible health and wellbeing. Our approach focuses on helping people to prevent, improve - and even reverse - long-term health conditions through practical, evidence-based lifestyle changes.
The Living Well Course began in 2021 as a programme for patients at high risk of disease. The results were powerful: participants experienced measurable improvements in their health, along with overwhelmingly positive feedback.
Seeing this impact, we set out to share the course more widely - so that more people and organisations can support their communities to live healthier, happier lives.
Today, we train individuals and teams across:
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Health and social care
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Voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) organisations
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Education
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Corporate settings
Meet the team
Dr Jen West
I am a retired GP with over 40 years of experience in the NHS, with particular interests in palliative care and, more recently, long COVID. I was involved in running a local long COVID clinic, where I saw firsthand the powerful role lifestyle approaches can play in improving patients' quality of life. Since retiring, I have focused on lifestyle medicine - an area I believe is essential to the future of healthcare, yet still underrepresented in traditional medical training. Over the past 3 years, I have worked with the Living Well Course team to develop an evidence-based educational programme designed to support both patients and practitioners. I am passionate about sharing this work more widely and write a fortnightly newsletter on lifestyle medicine for a growing community of readers. Outside of this, I enjoy learning to play the cello, walking my dog, cooking, and spending time with my grandchildren, who keep me feeling young and curious.
Dr Richard Pile
I am a GP specialising in Lifestyle Medicine and Cardiology, TEDx speaker, health coach and author (Fit For Purpose, Harper Collins 2021). Previously an NHS clinical lead for Lifestyle Medicine & Prevention, I'm also the medical director of Thrive Tribe and co-founder of The Living Well Course. Outside of work I enjoy running, mountain biking, archery, obsessing over jazz, spending time with friends and family, and being taken to the pub by my dog,
Dr Nicola Phillips
An NHS GP for the past 8 years working in a busy practice in St Albans. I have a diploma in lifestyle medicine and a belief we can make a real difference through evidence based lifestyle changes. I am a Mum to 2 boys with a passion for being outside and keeping active. In between this I enjoy cycling, running and dog walking!
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