Lifestyle medicine for the whole person — body, mind and spirit. Led by Dr Anthea Fofo Klufio, for families here in the UK and at home in Ghana.
Health education is free and always will be. Our first work is with churches, community groups and families who are too often left out of the conversation about their own health.
Everything happens here rather than scattered across six different apps — so conversations can be followed, questions get answered, and nobody falls through the gap.
A clinic appointment you attend alongside others living with the same condition.
Structured reviews for diabetes, blood pressure, weight, asthma and COPD.
Conversations on health and faith, plus gospel music, in audio and video.
One moderated space for questions between appointments.
Teaching, screening days and health weeks run with faith and community groups.
Evidence gathered from the people whose health is most often overlooked.
MBChB · MSc Paediatrics · MRCGP · Lifestyle Medicine Specialist
Anthea is a GP and lifestyle medicine specialist working with people whose conditions have long been managed one prescription at a time. Lifestyle medicine asks a different question: what would it take for this person to get better, and who needs to be around them for that to happen?
She is Ghanaian, Christian, and has spent her career in the NHS. She does not separate those things, and neither does this practice — gospel music and dance are part of how she understands wellbeing, not a decoration on the side of it.
My faith is not a footnote to my medicine. It is the reason I keep turning up for the people everyone else has given up on.
Lifestyle medicine treats the causes of long-term illness rather than only its symptoms. Six of these are the recognised pillars of the discipline. The seventh is ours.
Starting from the food you actually eat — jollof, fufu, ackee, Sunday rice — not a diet sheet written for someone else's kitchen.
Whatever gets you moving and keeps you moving. For many of us that has always been dancing.
Shift work, night feeds, worry at 3am. We look at what is stealing your rest before we look at tablets.
Money, status, family here and family at home. Naming the load is the first part of carrying it differently.
Alcohol, tobacco, and the herbal remedies sold to us with no idea what they do to the liver or the kidneys.
Isolation makes people ill. Group consultations are partly medicine and partly company.
Prayer, praise and scripture, for those who want them. Nobody is required to believe anything to be cared for here.
Eight to twelve people living with the same condition meet online with Dr Klufio for around ninety minutes. You get your own review — your numbers, your medication, your plan — and you hear everyone else's questions too. Most people find the questions they were too embarrassed to ask get asked by someone else first.
Tell us your condition and which dates suit you. Sessions are grouped by condition, not by postcode.
A short form a few days ahead: blood pressure, weight, blood sugar, how you have actually been. It means the time together is spent talking, not measuring.
One link, from a phone or a laptop. A facilitator lets you in and stays for the whole session.
Dr Klufio goes through each person's results in turn. You may speak as much or as little as you want.
Your plan and the general teaching notes are sent afterwards. Anything private is handled one to one.
People ask whether they can keep their face hidden. You can. Cameras may be off, or you can join by audio only, and you can appear as a first name or initials.
It is worth knowing what you trade. A group consultation works because people recognise themselves in each other, and that lands more strongly when faces are visible. A room of black squares is still useful, but it takes longer to warm up.
A middle path most groups settle on: cameras on for the greeting and the teaching, off whenever you want during your own review.
Sessions are not recorded unless everyone present agrees. Nothing discussed in the room is shared outside it, and everyone signs the same undertaking before joining.
Tell us what you are living with and we will let you know when the next group for that condition opens. There is no charge for group consultations.
Type 2 diabetes and prediabetes, high blood pressure, weight and metabolic health, asthma and COPD, menopause, and living well with more than one long-term condition. If yours is not listed, say so — groups start when there are enough people asking.
No. Group consultations sit alongside your own GP and any hospital team. We will always encourage you to keep your regular appointments, and we can write to your practice with your permission.
Yes. A partner, an adult child, or whoever helps you manage things at home is welcome to sit in. Tell us in advance so the group knows.
Sessions are open to people outside the UK for health education and general guidance. Anything that involves prescribing or a clinical decision has to follow the rules of the country you are in, and we will tell you plainly where that line falls.
Some of this is running now. Some of it is being built, and we would rather say so than let you find out after you have booked.
Advice and teaching for churches, community organisations, charities and employers who want to improve the health of the people they serve.
Structured group reviews for long-term conditions, with one-to-one follow-up where it is needed. Delivered virtually, and in person once the Ghana premises are open.
A paid weight management service, medically supervised, for people who want structured support alongside the free group work.
A service for people visiting the UK, and for relatives here, who have run out of regular medication and have nowhere to turn. It is a real gap and we intend to fill it properly.
One doctor cannot undo a chronic condition. These are the colleagues we refer to, most of them working across the UK and Ghana.
Medication reviews and what your tablets are actually doing together.
Eating plans built around West African and Caribbean food.
Insulin, monitoring, and the day-to-day of living with it.
Asthma, COPD and emphysema, including inhaler technique.
For grief, anxiety, low mood and the weight of migration.
Someone in your corner between appointments.
Movement for bodies of every age and ability.
Why communities behave as they do, and what actually changes it.
Available on request, never assumed.
Four strands, published as audio and video. The first season is being recorded now — here is what is coming.
Conversations with clinicians, pastors and people living with long-term conditions.
Why type 2 diabetes arrived in our kitchens, and what we can change without losing the food.
Hypertension, racism, shift work and sleep — with a cardiologist and a pastor.
Why people stop their tablets, and how to talk about it without shame.
Palliative care, family expectation, and the conversations we keep postponing.
Gospel music and dance as a tool for expression and wellbeing — performances, worship sets and the stories behind the songs.
Commissioned for this platform, written and recorded for us so it can be used freely anywhere on the site.
Filmed worship sets with musicians from the church and the community.
Movement, praise and what happens to the body during an hour of it.
Short episodes holding a scripture, a well-known saying and a traditional proverb next to each other, to see where they agree.
Go back and fetch what you forgot — alongside the scriptures that ask a people to remember.
On waiting, sickness of heart, and what proverbs from three cultures say about patience.
Stewardship, self-care, and the line between discipline and condemnation.
Health topics presented in sign language, so that Deaf members of our congregations and communities are not waiting for someone to interpret for them.
What the two numbers mean and when to act.
Preparing for an appointment and asking for an interpreter.
A shared vocabulary for diabetes, asthma and heart disease.
Between appointments, people need somewhere to ask the small question. This is that place — one forum, moderated, where the answers come from the team rather than from the internet.
Condition groups, a general room, and a prayer room. Moderated daily by the team so nothing dangerous sits unanswered.
Monthly open meetings — teaching, testimony, music, and a chance to bring a question to the doctor without booking anything.
We run health weeks, screening days and teaching series with congregations. If your church wants one, we will help you plan it.
Giving the vulnerable a voiceThe purpose behind the advocacy work
Health inequity is not an abstraction. It is a woman who waited three years for a diagnosis, a man who cannot afford the bus to the clinic, a family whose language nobody at the surgery speaks.
We gather that evidence directly — through surveys, through the forum, through what people tell us in the groups — and we put it in front of the people who commission and design services. Anonymously, always, and only with permission.
If you work in commissioning, public health or research and want to collaborate, or if you have a story that should be heard, we want to hear from you.
Three different doors, depending on why you are here.
Ask for a place in a group consultation, or just tell us what you are dealing with and we will point you somewhere useful.
Health weeks, teaching, screening days and training for community health champions.
We are building the referral network — pharmacists, dietitians, therapists, coaches, in the UK and in Ghana.