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.
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.
Results of a survey carried out among attendees of the BGS Trainees' Weekend 2022, reflecting on issues relating to study leave and the wider picture for Trainees.
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 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 looks at data collected by the Royal College of Physicians on the consultant workforce.
Presentations from 2021 North West Autumn Meeting (3 CPD Points)
This page brings together some of the creative and inspirational ways our members and their colleagues have found to help support and encourage workforce wellbeing.
This report is a follow-up of the BGS COVID-19 workforce report Through the visor: Reflecting on member experiences of the COVID-19 first wave. Like the first report, this follow-up was based on a survey of members on their experiences of working through the pandemic.
Links, resources and tools to help support personal wellbeing during a particularly challenging time for the health and care workforce.
The Wessex Region Spring Meeting 2021 was held on 27 May 2021
This BGS position statement sets out the benefits of less than full time (LTFT) working in geriatric medicine for both individuals and organisations, and provides six guiding principles as well as tips for sucessful flexible working.
Perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic and its affect on members' mental and emotional health, aired at the BGS Autumn Meeting 2020.
#NurseAHPcouncil online meeting Wednesday 24th February 2021
National networking through peer support and professional development
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.
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.
6th annual Wessex CRN ageing research meeting and regional BGS
Topics covered include
This annual meeting aims to identify and address key training and learning points within the speciality. Sessions include: Developing management skills, Older people in the emergency department, Quality Improvement surgery, Neurosurgery, Nutrition in old age.
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.