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Title |
Date of publication |
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Who is old? What is the geriatricians' target group? |
July 2007 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Download |
Measuring Needs and Dependency (Northwick Park Dependency Scale and Northwick Park Care Needs Assessment)
article written by Lynne Turner Stokes |
May 2006 |
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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 |
Undergraduate Geriatric Medicine Education - results of survey
by Lisa Bartram and Peter Crome |
Nov 2004 |
| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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The Government response to Health Committee's report on Continuing Care (summary provided by Dr Jackie Morris) |
Oct 2005 |
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Guidelines on implementation of clinical governance
(recommendations of BGS and Royal Colleges of Physicians) |
May 2000 |
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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 |
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Clinical Governance
(extracted from the May 1999 issue of the BGS Newsletter) - comprehensive article on the subject |
May 1999 |
| History of Geriatric Medicine |
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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 |
| Mental Health |
| Download |
Delirious about dementia
A practical toolkit towards better services for patients with cognitive impairment |
Oct 2006 |
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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 |
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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 |
Appraisal and revalidation of geriatricians
What are the issues in early 2005?
by Peter Belfield, Consultant Geriatrician and Medical Director |
April 2005 |
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Academic and Research Committee's Research Strategy
(initially developed by Prof Steve Jackson in 2004) |
Dec 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
