#ChooseGeriatrics

#ChooseGeriatrics celebrates the variety, excitement and rewards of professional roles in older people’s healthcare.

Over the next 12 months, we will share stories and career journeys from our members to highlight the diversity and flexibility of roles across the multidisciplinary team, so that people wishing to specialise in older people’s healthcare can access the information they need to start on this journey and become part of the strong community providing high-quality care for older people.

We will also work with those involved in the recruitment of doctors to improve the match between people and jobs, helping to ensure that good candidates are able to find jobs in geriatric medicine and vacancies are filled across the UK.

All older people should have access to the care and support that they need, where and when they need it. But this requires a workforce that is fit for purpose. We aim to attract more people into older people’s healthcare.

The population is ageing and currently there are not enough people with the skills needed to care for older people with increasingly complex needs. BGS members will help to promote the #ChooseGeriatrics campaign to the wider healthcare workforce, encouraging recognition of the needs of older people as those who use NHS services the most, and the rewards of careers specialising in their care.

Find out more

Read on to find out more about how the #ChooseGeriatrics campaign will take shape, and how you can get involved.

#ChooseGeriatrics: Setting the scene

Our #ChooseGeriatrics campaign is new. But BGS shining a light on the challenges facing the older people’s healthcare workforce is not. Here you can find links to some of our recent workforce reports which help to build the case for the #ChooseGeriatrics campaign.

Share your story

Why did you #ChooseGeriatrics? We want to hear from members of the whole multidisciplinary team and across clinical and care settings in all corners of the UK.