British Geriatrics Society
Reference Material Index

Archive of BGS Annual Reports (in pdf)
Archive of Scientific Meeting Abstracts (in pdf)

Index

What's new?
Bone health
Governance (Government and Service Delivery
History of Geriatric Medicine
Incontinence, Bladder and Bowel Health
Measurement and Audit Tools
Mental Health
Multi-specialties (GPswSI, Nurses, Therapists and multi-disciplinary issues)
Palliative and end of life care
Training, Academic Medicine, CPD and Revalidaton
Other useful references

Link Title Date of publication
Download The role of the geriatrician in management of long term conditions Sep 2009
Download Community Geriatrics Programme - the Torfaen (Wales) programme which won the 2008 BUPA Foundation Award Dec 2008
Download Who is old? What is the geriatricians' target group? July 2007
Download Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: establishing capacity, discussing it with patients and documents. Dec 2006
Download BGS Dignity campaign
See Newsletter article too.
Nov 2006
Download National Coalition for Active Ageing - promoting physical activity with older people April 2006
Download Summary of the Wanless Report May 2006
Download Some scientific tips on how to do a good Powerpoint Presentation (exhaustively researched and developed by Dr Ian Taylor) May 2006
Bone Health
Download Revised "blue book" - The Care of Patients with Fragility Fractures Sep 2007
Download Importance of Vision in Preventing Falls (ex-compendium document replaced by compendium document 4-5) Nov 2003
Download Strategy for the secondary prevention of osteoporotic fractures - a hospital based approach published by the National Osteporosis Society, supported by the International Osteporosis Foundation Jul 2005
End of Life and Palliative Care
Download The National Council for Palliative Care has published an aid for end of life care in care homes, entitled "Building on Firm Foundations" Jun 2007
Governance and Service Delivery
Download The Government response to Health Committee's report on Continuing Care (summary provided by Dr Jackie Morris) Oct 2005
Download Guidelines on implementation of clinical governance
(recommendations of BGS and Royal Colleges of Physicians)
May 2000
Download Educating for Dignity
Educational materials intended to stimulate thinking and reflection about dignity and older people
Oct 2005
Download Charging of the privilege of being ill ?
Problems and opportunities with long term care - RCN report
Sep 2005
Download Clinical Governance
(extracted from the May 1999 issue of the BGS Newsletter) - comprehensive article on the subject
May 1999
History of Geriatric Medicine
Download The evolution of Geriatric Medicine in the UK: Are there any lessons for Taiwan (a useful Powerpoint presentation for anybody outlining the history of the specialty, authored by David Oliver of Reading University) Jan 2008
Download History and Trends within British Geriatric Medicine (a useful history of geriatric medicine prepared at presented by Richard Lynham at a conference in Cologne in 1995) Aug 1995
Incontinence (Bladder and Bowel Health)
Download Continence Care - A Guide for those working in residential and nursing homes (old BGS Compendium document B2) 1998
Download Faecal Incontinence and Constipation in the Older Person
by James Barrett
April 2002
Download Continence and the Ageing Male
by Adrian Wagg
April 2002
Measurement and Audit Tools
Download Measuring Needs and Dependency (Northwick Park Dependency Scale and North Park Needs Assessment (written by Lynne Turner Stokes) May 2006
Mental Health
Download Delirious about dementia
A practical toolkit towards better services for patients with cognitive impairment
Oct 2006
Download Delirious about dementia
a consensus document put together by a working group comprising members of the Cerebral Ageing and Mental Health SIG
Oct 2005
Multi-specialty Issues
Download Guidelines for the appointment of GPs with a special interest in older people's care
recommendations provided by the BGS and published by the DoH
Nov 2003
Training, Academic Medicine and Revalidation Issues
Download JCHMT information on core medical training (pdf) Oct 2006
Download Wales Core Curriculum of Competencies in Intermediate Care for SpRs in Geriatric Medicine Jan 2006
Download Acute and Internal Medicine Training in the UK - The way forward (Report of the Working Group on Acute and Internal Medicine JCHMT) Nov 2005
Download Appraisal and revalidation of geriatricians
What are the issues in early 2005?
by Peter Belfield, Consultant Geriatrician and Medical Director
April 2005
Download Academic and Research Committee's Research Strategy
(initially developed by Prof Steve Jackson in 2004)
Dec 2004
Download Undergraduate Geriatric Medicine Education - results of survey
by Lisa Bartram and Peter Crome
Nov 2004
Download Specialist Registrar training in Intermediate Care and Community Geriatrics (the JCHMT website also carries the SpR generic curriculum) Updated on an ongoing basis
Download Academic Geriatric Medicine
by R W Stout
Feb 2002
Download The Teaching Care Home - an option for professional training - the proceedings of a joint BGS and RSAS AgeCare Conference Feb 1999
More useful reference material
Download Who Cares Wins, endorsed by the British Geriatrics Society, Royal College of Nursing and the Alzheimer's Disease Society - sets out the case of need, service development and the evidence that attending to mental health improves outcomes for patients and hospitals
commended by Dr Duncan Forsyth
June 2005
Download Geriatricians and the management of long-term conditions
(report of the Primary and Continuing Care SIG)
Feb 2005
Download Developing Intermediate Care to support reform and emergency services
Report to Intermediate Care Working Group 2003
Oct 2003
Download Older People's Specialist Nurse
published by a joint Working Party of the BGS and Royal College of Nursing
July 2001
Download NHS Performance Assessment Framework
by Rebecca Dunn
(extracted from the May 1999 issue of the BGS Newsletter) - comprehensive article on the subject
May 1999
Download A summary of the NSF for Older People
by Richard Lynham
(extracted from the May 1999 issue of the BGS Newsletter)
May 1999