If you're thinking of doing research but are put off by taking a lengthy break from work or studies, consider doing research part time alongside your clinical job. We examine the pros and cons.
Providing healthcare to older adults is often extremely challenging. Patients often have multiple long-term conditions, and present to healthcare in atypical ways. Doctors need to be highly competent communicators with knowledge of medical ethics, social care and palliative medicine.
When taking time out of programme (or OOP), it's important to maintain clinical skills and knowledge when medical practice is constantly evolving.
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 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.
In these videos, BGS members and their colleagues share their journeys into geriatrics, and explain why it is such a compelling and rewarding specialty to work in.
From November 2023, the CESR route for Specialist and GP registration changed to the new Portfolio Pathway. Dr Amit Arora (BGS Vice President, Workforce), Dr Saniya Naseer (SAS doctor) and Dr Somaditya Bandyopadhyay (SAS doctor) met with the General Medical Council (GMC) to clarify some common issues and questions for the benefit of our many SAS doctors.
This report summarises a roundtable event hosted by the British Geriatrics Society (BGS) on 20 June 2024 to discuss the themes raised in the 2023 report Health in an Ageing Society from the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), and the BGS's blueprint document, Joining the dots: Preventing and managing frailty in older people, also published in 2023. Participants at the roundtable event included senior representatives from NHS England, medical Royal Colleges, professional membership organisations, think tanks and charities with a shared interest in older people's health and care.
In advance of the general election on 4 July, BGS has outlined ten asks under three themes that the next Government needs to prioritise in order to improve healthcare for older people.
This final chapter reinforces the potential of rehabilitation for older adults and reflects on the current challenges of implementation, with some take-home messages.
This report analyses data from the UK 2022 census of consultant physicians, conducted by the Royal College of Physicians London on behalf of the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK. The latest RCP census was published in 2023 and is based on data collected in 2022.
The workforce of health and care professionals involved in improving and delivering care to older people encompasses a wide range of disciplines, training and careers. This section brings together important information about this uniquely skilled and varied workforce.
This report summarises the findings of a survey of the BGS membership undertaken in late 2023. It provides a snapshot into how our members are feeling about their work and the services they work in.
As the population of older people increases, so too does the need for healthcare professionals who are trained to provide high-quality care to these complex individuals. This issue explores some of the challenges and solutions to the workforce crisis. This content is limited to members only.
Managing medicines in older people with multimorbidity is a fine balance, requiring input from the individual themselves, their support network and the wider multidisciplinary team. This issue focuses on how to get the best out of medicines, exploring deprescribing, structured medication reviews, and evidence-based interventions. This content is limited to members only.
This report examines the geriatrician workforce needed to provide high-quality care for an ageing population with increasingly complex needs.
The BGS has published a report examining data collected by the RCP on the consultant and Higher Specialty Trainee geriatric medicine workforce.
The devolved national branches of the BGS report to the BGS Board of Trustees twice a year. These reports are published in BGS News. Here, Wales reports on its activities and workforce issues.
The Government has published its response to the Health and Social Care Select Committee's Second Report of Session 2017-19 on 'The Nursing Workforce'.
We should never lose sight that most older people live well in older age. However, we are also very familiar with the challenge of a population that is ageing with all the risks associated with co-morbidities and complex health and social care issues.
With the national agenda to create virtual wards has come an increasing demand to develop Hospital at Home (hospital@home, H@H) services. Guys and St Thomas’ H@H, operational since 2014, “takes the ward to the patient’s home”.
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the work of AgeUK is more important than ever. Older people have been more likely to develop COVID-19, more likely to become severely unwell or disabled as a consequence of COVID-19 and have been the group most affected by social isolation.
In this video blog, Mike Nicholson, an Edinburgh-based writer and social researcher, tells some of the real life stories of those living and working in care homes during the pandemic.
The BGS Autumn Meeting 2021 marks the beginning of the term of office for a number of new BGS officers. We are incredibly grateful for the energy and commitment that all our officers bring to their roles.
As we come up to a year since COVID-19 was officially declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization and ‘normal’ life as we knew it was halted, BGS President Dr Jennifer Burns reflects on what has happened over the past year.
Chaired by BGS Past President Dr Eileen Burns, the five nation care home meeting gave participants an opportunity to share their experiences of managing COVID in care home settings and to compare what worked well and what didn’t.
2024 Leadership and Management Course
Education in Geriatric Medicine
BGS Webinar on IMT applications
Geriatrics for Juniors is a one-day conference, designed for Foundation Doctors, Internal Medical, GP Trainees, and Specialist Nurse Practitioners. It aims to deliver relevant and useful clinical updates in all the main sub-specialties of Geriatric Medicine, in order to improve the standard of care for older patients.
A two-day residential course specifically designed for those in training roles in geriatric medicine, moving into senior roles. This course focuses on management and leadership issues that affect health services for older people.
Geriatrics for Everyone is a free-to-attend one-day conference. It is for all in training or wishing to develop their knowledge and skills around older people medicine.
Live in Edinburgh and online 17-19 May. Click here to register, view the programme and access the live stream.
This event is a locally organised forum covering the latest scientific research and the best clinical practice in care of older people. All healthcare professional are invited to join
The BGS Spring Meeting 2021 is taking place on 28-30 April. Click here to view the programme, register or find out how to join online live or on demand.
This event is a local forum covering the latest scientific research and the best clinical practice in care of older people.
The BGS Autumn Meeting will cover the latest in evidence and best practice in the health and care of older people.
BGS Wessex region will be hosting a virtual networking meeting, consisting of key note speeches and mini updates. Areas will include innovation and research updates, service development and patient feedback.
A 2 day residential course for senior registrars focusing on management & leadership issues that affect health services for older people.
The British Geriatrics Society response to the Department of Health’s consultation on the regulation of medical associate professions in the UK and the positive recognition of the medical associate role that it represents.
BGS recently responded to the public consultation by Health Education England with input from NHS England and other bodies, on its draft health and care workforce strategy for England to 2027. The focus was on the development of the strategy, which will be published in July 2018 to coincide with the NHS 70th anniversary. In our response we welcome the commitment to a free, universal healthcare system but state that we would like to have seen a greater recognition of and commitment to person-centred care being placed at the heart of the strategy.