Midlands

Region overview

The Midlands region covers the area including:

  • Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent
  • Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin
  • Derbyshire
  • Lincolnshire
  • Nottinghamshire
  • Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland
  • The Black Country
  • Birmingham and Solihull
  • Coventry and Warwickshire
  • Herefordshire and Worcestershire
  • Northamptonshire

Meet Midlands BGS members

  • BGS members can join our members directory allowing them to connect with other healthcare professionals in their region.
     
  • The forum is free to access for all health professionals with a BGS web account. You can access it via the BGS app. Use the forum to discuss older people's healthcare by theme (e.g. dementia) or topic (e.g. workforce). The forum also allows you to ask questions, or help provide answers to other professionals. It is a forum where health professionals can ask seek help, offer support to others or share their successes. Find out more on the forum information page.

Get involved

There are multiple ways to get involved with your BGS region.

  • Submit content for your regional e-bulletin. The BGS sends a tailored quarterly e-bulletin to each of its six England regions. As the region areas are so vast, you can provide valuable support by sharing updates on what’s happening in your own hospital or Trust. Please email your Co-Chairs with updates.
     
  • Help to plan our online events and webinars. By joining the planning committee, you will have the opportunity to help create programme content, source speakers and support on the day. This will help to enable colleagues to improve the delivery of high-quality healthcare to older people. Please email your region Co-Chairs to express your interest.

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2026 Midlands Region Meeting

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2026 Midlands Region Meeting

This virtual meeting is hosted by the Midlands region.
BGS 2026 Midlands Region Meeting

Midlands Officers

Midlands Region Update March 2026

Our Region Co-Chairs share an update every quarter, highlighting key developments, successes, and priorities from across their region.

This is the first update since the merger of regions into what is now the Midlands. Reporting regional updates across a larger area is more challenging, so we would like to start by saying hello and inviting colleagues to get in touch with stories of inspirational services or local challenges to feature in this space.

We have a regional meeting planned for 12 June, so please do join us virtually if you can. The programme will be announced in due course, but please do get in touch if you have work you would like to share. Traditionally, these meetings are a great opportunity to come together to celebrate local services, network and hear from colleagues across the region.

Positivity and clear direction feel particularly important at the moment. Across many regions we continue to hear concerns about the persistence of corridor care for older people waiting for beds, which seriously undermines dignity and safety. We would like to draw your attention to the British Geriatrics Society (BGS) response to corridor care from November 2025, which calls for urgent action to restore patient flow and invest in community and social care.

For many geriatricians, ourselves included, witnessing this daily can cause deep moral injury. Locally, solutions have included initiatives such as Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC), geriatrician in-reach to the emergency department, geriatric medicine advice lines and community geriatric medicine services. However, the ongoing challenge of clearly defining geriatric medicine as a specialty within overstretched systems can make service design difficult. As a result, some services are under threat or have already been lost.

Strengthening the identity, workforce and leadership of geriatric medicine is therefore central to the solution. We encourage you to connect with us and engage with regional activities so that we can help highlight and share the important work taking place in your services.