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British Geriatrics Society

The British Geriatrics Society (BGS) is a professional association of doctors practising geriatric medicine, old age psychiatrists, general practitioners, nurses, therapists, scientists and others with a particular interest in the medical care of older people and in promoting better health in old age. It has over 2,500 members worldwide and is the only society in the UK offering specialist medical expertise in the wide range of health care needs of older people.

The BGS uses the expertise of its members to inform and influence the development of health care policy in the UK and to ensure the design, commissioning and delivery of age appropriate health services. The BGS works closely with other specialist medical societies and allies itself with age-related charities.

The BGS strives to promote better understanding of the health care needs of older people. It shares examples of best practice to ensure that older people are treated with dignity and respect and that wherever possible, older people live healthy, independent lives.

 

Dignity Action Day – 1 February 2012

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Today is Dignity Action Day, a reminder to all health and social care staff as well as the public that upholding people’s right to dignity is everyone’s responsibility.  Undignified care occurs most often when the needs of the patient are not put first.  As soon as care becomes task driven rather than person-centred, there is a failure to deliver ‘do as you would be done by care’.

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Health Select Committee on the NHS efficiency savings

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The House of Commons Health Select Committee launced a report that said the overhaul was hindering the ability of the NHS to make the savings it needs to safeguard its future. Further information can be found here.

 

Improving Care Home Residents' Access to NHS Services

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Early Day Motion 2578 Improving Care Home Residents' Access to NHS Services has been tabled by Peter Aldous MP, Nick Smith MP, Andrew George MP, Peter Bottomley MP and Mark Durkan MP.  The EDM calls on commissioners and health service planners to meet the healthcare needs of care home residents and highlights the variation in service provision described by Quest for Quality.

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NHS Future Forum calls on healthcare professionals to lead way

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The NHS Future Forum has given its second set of reports to Health Secretary Andrew Lansley in which it sets out a series of recommendations to improve the quality of patient care and achieve better outcomes. More information is here.

 
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Newsflash!!

BGS Spring Meeting

Online registration is now open AND we invite delegates to serve as poster facilitators.

 

BGS February 2012 Newsletter

The February 2012 issue of the BGS newsletter is now available featuring:

Staywell 75+ - Anticipatory Care Model

First National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals

The End of Life Care in Advance Dementia Project

Care and Repair - England

 

BGS 2012 Spring Meeting - Abstract Results

The results of the adjudication of the Llandudno Spring Meeting Abstracts are now available here.


 

BGS Scientific Meetings

What do members want to see more of at the scientific BGS meetings?
 

Nosokinetics - December 2011/January 2012

The latest issue of Nosokinetics News is now available.

 

In this newsletter we look back to 1989  Seeing the beginning of the mathematical modelling and the ongoing work with clinical data. We reporting a recent special invited session on Markov models in health care.

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Belief and Ageing

This book illustrates the variety of religious, spiritual and other beliefs held by older people, including British Christians, Muslims, Humanists and witnesses of the Soviet persecution of religion. Belief and Ageing

"A bold and imaginative volume from the leading scholar in the field. The study provides rich and wide-ranging material on the role of religious and other beliefs in the lives of older people. An outstanding contribution."

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