11
Sep
2025

2025 POPS (Perioperative Care of Older People Undergoing Surgery) Meeting

Credits
Applied for 6 credits of live CPD credit (expires 11 October 2025) and 6 credits Distance learning CPD accreditation (expires 11 September 2026) from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP)

This event is intended for clinicians and healthcare professionals working with older people undergoing elective or emergency surgery.

Flexible attendance options & registration fees for 2025:
In person or online

There is no difference in registration fees for in person and online meeting attendance. The registration fee provides access to the conference or online platform for the days you are registered. On demand viewing post event will be limited to the days for which you have registered and paid.

There is a flexible transfer from in person to online attendance as clinical service and life balance require. Please check our FAQs first for any queries you may have about attendance or on demand watching.

Programme themes:

This conference will cover core areas of interest to all specialists responsible for the health care of older people with a particular focus on:

  • Updates in perioperative medicine in older people
  • Critical Aortic Stenosis and TAVI
  • The older amputee

 

Call for abstracts:

Please submit your abstracts for the meeting before the closing date: 

Submit your abstract

Who should attend:

  • All consultants, nurses and allied health care professionals with an interest in healthcare of older people
  • Especially those working in
    • geriatric medicine
    • acute/general medicine
    • frailty
  • GPs with an extended role in older people and GP trainees
  • Advanced and specialist practitioners
  • Consultant practitioners/consultant nurses
  • Pharmacists
  • Physician associates
  • Internal medicine trainees especially those considering an surgical, acute, geriatric medicine, or anaesthetical specialty
  • Medical, nursing, allied health professional students
  • Researchers into ageing and age-related conditions

Why participate:

  • Understand more on the key areas & challenges faced in providing care to older people undergoing surgery
  • Hear focused presentations on core areas of Perioperative Care of Older people undergoing surgery
  • Present your latest scientific research 
  • Network & socialise with other healthcare professionals 

Grants to attend: In person or online

Members in Category B, C and D are now eligible to apply for a new BGS event grant. This will cover the registration cost for a BGS conference, either virtually or in person. Applications can be submitted from the event registration page, and should be requested and approved before completing registration.

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The Venue: Wellcome Collection, London