Workforce portal

The workforce portal brings together key BGS messages and information on the multidisciplinary workforce caring for older people.

The BGS regularly and analyses workforce data collected by others, and surveys its membership to identify particular workforce gaps and issues. This page brings together some of the most recent key workforce information gathered or produced by the BGS.

Key resources

06
Feb
2024
Report
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The state of the older people’s healthcare workforce: A report from the BGS membership survey

This report summarises the findings of a survey of the BGS membership undertaken in late 2023.
19
Feb
2024
Report
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The state of the consultant geriatrician workforce: An analysis of the RCP census

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

15
Aug
2024
Fact sheet
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The new Portfolio Pathway in Geriatric Medicine and General Internal Medicine

From November 2023, the CESR route for Specialist and GP registration changed to the new Portfolio Pathway.
Report
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The case for more geriatricians: Strengthening the workforce to care for an ageing population

This report examines the geriatrician workforce needed to provide high-quality care for an ageing population with increasingly complex needs.
More geriatricians

#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.