Primary and Community Care

In this document, the BGS sets out five principles that should underpin front door frailty services, as well as tips on establishing services from those who have been through the process. 

This publication outlines how to deliver proactive care against core components and key enablers, acting as a roadmap for implementing the NHS England framework and delivering proactive care services. This introduction includes a foreword, executive summary and an outline of the 12 recommendations.

As winter approaches, BGS members across the country will be considering the impact that the change in seasons will have on their patients and services. These 12 actions are intended as a guide to the core components of safe, high-quality care for older people that are transferable between care settings.

This final chapter provides a conclusion, as well as appendices including case studies of successfully implemented proactive care services.

In this chapter, we set out eight key recommendations which are crucial to the success of proactive care services across community and primary care settings in the UK. 

This chapter goes into greater depth about the five core components and three key enablers for delivery.

This chapter sets explains what proactive care is, introducing the core components and key enablers for delivery.

This document outlines evidence for proactive care and support for older adults with moderate to severe frailty.

This report summarises a roundtable event hosted by the BGS on 20 June 2024.

This issue looks at how placing older people at the centre of their care helps to ensure their needs and wishes are met. This content is limited to members only.

There are three times as many care home beds as acute hospital beds in the UK. This issue focuses on the significant group of older people who live with frailty in care homes. This content is limited to members only.

This article lays out UK Health Security Agency’s guidance on how healthcare professionals can best prepare for cold weather and how to look after older adults when temperatures drop below freezing.

This page brings together resources and information for any clinician or carer who finds themselves faced with providing care at the end of life during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This winter, respiratory illnesses, including COVID and flu, are prevalent across the NHS affecting both older people and the healthcare professionals who care for them. It is important for both older people and healthcare professionals to be vaccinated to give them the best chances of staying well. 

This section of the BGS Delirium Hub focuses on managing delirium in specific settings and clinical situations.

The West Midlands Region Autumn Meeting 2021 was held on 24 September 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic had a considerable impact on BGS members, their patients, their way of working and their mental and emotional wellbeing. This report aims to capture these experiences and the lessons learnt from how the pandemic was handled. It also outlines what could be done better if a similar situation ever arises again.

The National Falls Prevention Co-ordination Group (NFPCG) Deconditioning task and finish sub-group have developed a suite of five resources intended to support individuals, health and care professionals and commissioners to take action to help older adults become more active and recondition following activity restrictions in the COVID-19 pandemic.

A selection of case presentations on community geriatric services and initiatives which were first presented at the BGS Autumn Meeting 2021 (24-26 November).