The online BGS Autumn Meeting 2021 (24-26 November 2021) is running a stream on Community care for older people on Wednesday 24 November. If you work in a community service, please consider whether you could deliver a short case presentation around one of the three pillars of the Ageing Well programme: Urgent community response and recovery support Enhanced healthcare in care…
For the last 18 months I have been the Deputy Honorary Secretary of the British Geriatrics Society, supporting Professor Anne Hendry in her Honorary Secretary…
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…
As practising geriatricians, we firmly believe that the principles of psychological safety and empathy are indispensable to the proficient delivery of healthcare services.
This annual 2 day meeting is organised for those in geriatric medicine training roles, or in complementary specialities working extensively with older people. The meeting…
This report examines the geriatrician workforce needed to provide high-quality care for an ageing population with increasingly complex needs.
The BGS today launches a new report, ‘The case for more geriatricians: Strengthening the workforce to care for an ageing population’. Geriatricians are specialists in…
The focus for Dementia Action Week 2023 is diagnosis. Relevant to this is an excellent new report from the Alzheimer’s Society: ‘Improving access to a…
In two seminal papers, in the British Medical Journal (25 Dec 1943, 822–3) and the Lancet (8 June 1946, 841–3), Warren advocated the creation of…
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AbstractIntroduction. Health Education England (HEE) and the Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Boards recognise the importance of simulation-based tra
