2025 Frailty and Urgent Care Meeting

Date(s)
Live 14 March 2025. On demand until 14 March 2026
This event is intended for clinicians and healthcare professionals working with older people in urgent care settings. The day will include keynote presentations from experts in their field, time for questions, and sessions demonstrating best practice approaches.

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 healthcare of older people with a particular focus on urgent care settings.

 

Call for abstracts:

Please submit your abstracts for the meeting before the closing date:  5pm 31 January 2025

Submit your abstract 

Abstracts with a focus on the following are particularly encouraged:

  • Innovative approaches or use of technology to recognise or manage acute frailty
  • Frailty care with patient/carer involvement and experience as core business 
  • Examples of success/innovation in frailty education in your workplace
  • Use of QI methodology to improve care for frail older adults in acute settings 

Who should attend:

  • Consultants & specialist doctors in acute, emergency or geriatric medicine

  • Researchers in acute, emergency or geriatric medicine
  • Doctors training in related specialties
  • GPs wSI in Older People and GP trainees
  • Nurses and allied health professionals in acute, emergency and geriatric healthcare
  • Core medical trainees considering a career in acute, emergency or geriatric medicine

Why participate:

  • Improve attendees' skills in the urgent care of frail older people
  • Inspire attendees to achieve personal excellence in the urgent healthcare of older people
  • Share focused best practice presentations and the latest research in urgent care of older people
  • Takeaway new activities and ideas to advance attendees' workplace services

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.

Find out more

The Venue: The Stuido, Glasgow

Cost to attend
All fees inclusive of VAT.
There is no cost difference between in person or online
BGS Member Non-Member
Fee Fee
Senior Doctors – Post CCT or CESR CP Professions
*Including Corporate Representatives
£126 £210
Pre CCT or CESR CP Professions, Healthcare professionals (Nurses, Physiotherapists, Researchers) £63 £105
Students (Undergraduates in Medical School, Nursing or AHP courses) £31.50 £52.50
Card payments only. We don't accept PO or invoice payments.

*An early bird discount of 10% is available until 14 December 2024.
** Retired attendees receive a discount of 50% to attend and will need to request a code from registrations [at] bgs [dot] org [dot] uk

Your organization can register attendees and pay the registration fee by card only they hold on your behalf (A Proxy registration). There isn’t an option for invoice payment for our virtual and hybrid  conferences. The steps for a proxy registration are outlined on https://www.bgs.org.uk/hybrid-event-participants.

CPD and Post Event Access

We understand that you may not be able to tune-in to a live-streamed event or webinar as a result of clinical pressures. Therefore, if you view an archived version of a Federation-approved live-streamed event or live webinar within four weeks of it being broadcast you can still claim it as an approved external CPD course. BGS won't send certificates if you watch post event.

The live CPD codes will be found in the RCP diary.

After 4 weeks post-broadcast date
This will be classed by the RCP as distance learning and will be assigned a distance learning code and can be added to the diary as usual distance learning activities would be. 

  • As long as you are registered you can access the event live, or for up to 12 months post-broadcast via the platform 
  • The videos are instantly available
  • You can rewatch content for 12 months if you can’t join them all live.  
  • The RCP will allow you to claim CPD for up to 12 months after the delivery of a meeting where the archives are accessible.
  • If you watch you will need to record this in your CPD diary using the event code and hours but we won’t send a certificate for people who only watch post event. 
  • Further information about CPD can be found here https://www.federationcpd.org/covid-19.

Distance Learning

For the 2022/23 CPD year there will be no limit to the number of external credits that can be claimed for distance learning. In addition to the maximum of 10 approved distance learning credits you may add under the ‘Add Approved Entry’ tab, you may also add unlisted distance learning under the ‘Add Self-Certified Entry’ tab under the ‘Distance Learning’ sub-section. You will need to add them as an ‘External Self-Certified Distance Learning, Clinical or Non-Clinical’. Reading articles in online journals and e-libraries that are not approved should still be recorded as personal self-certified distance learning. Online mandatory training required by your employer should still be recorded as internal CPD.

Venue

Why attend a BGS conference in person

  • Session overview

    Session 1 09.30 -11.00

    Session 1

    Session 2 11.30 - 12.45

    Session 2

    Session 3 13.30 - 14.30

    Session 3

    Session 4 14.35 - 15.30

    Session 4 Platform Presentations

    Session 5 15.45 - 16.30

    Session 5

    How are you attending Day 1

    Online