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Announcing the winner of the Marjory Warren Lifetime Achievement Award 2025, Dr Rosemary Kelly

We are thrilled to announce that Dr Rosemary Kelly has won our prestigious Marjory Warren Lifetime Achievement Award for 2025.

Named in honour of the founder of modern geriatric medicine, Dr Marjory Warren, the award is presented annually to someone who has made an outstanding contribution to the healthcare of older people.

BGS responds to new Age UK report

Age UK have today published the latest edition of their State of Health and Care report.

And the 2025 BGS Special Medal goes to… Christine Greenhalgh…

Every year, the BGS invites nominations for our Special Medal. This is awarded to someone outside the clinical world who has made a valuable contribution to the care and quality of life of older…

AACE and BGS launch National Falls Governance Framework

The BGS has endorsed a new framework from the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE) which was developed with input from the clinical leads for falls at all UK ambulance services.

Actions to help provide effective acute care for older people living with frailty

Guidance to support acute teams to deliver optimal care for older people living with frailty has been developed by Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) in collaboration with the BGS.

Co-ordinated frailty care for better outcomes

Preparing for winter: A checklist for healthcare…

Winter in the NHS is tough. We have put together a checklist to support professionals across the system to make what changes they can to ensure that this year, winter is a little easier for older…

Hospital at Home for frailty: Current situation and future…

The BGS has produced a report on Hospital at Home services for older people. This explains how they are currently provided and how they might develop in the future as a key part of community-based…

51,400 older people endured dangerous 12 hour waits in…

New analysis reveals record numbers of extremely long waits for older patients in 2024.

Long waits in Emergency Departments across Scotland are a political responsibility that can no longer be ignored…

The Electronic Frailty Index 2 – using patient data to predict older people’s care needs

When Age and Ageing published the first Electronic Frailty Index (eFI) in 2016, it quickly became highly influential and is now used nationally across the NHS to identify and measure frailty within a population. The updated Electronic Frailty Index 2 (eFI2) has now been published in Age and Ageing. The eFI2 further advances care for older people with frailty and sets a new standard for frailty research internationally.

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BGS co-signs research funders’ statement on inclusion of…

In 2023 the Chief Medical Officer for England’s Annual Report on Health in an Ageing Society identified the need for more research to include older people. The BGS supports this notion wholeheartedly…

Jul

BGS responds to Work and Pensions Committee report on…

The BGS welcomes the recognition of the wide-ranging effects of pensioner poverty on the health of older people in the Work and Pensions Committee’s report, Pensioner Poverty: challenges and\u2026

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