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From neighbourhood health, to prevention, to digital technology, Fit for the Future: 10 Year Plan for England is a 177-page document setting out the direction of travel of the NHS for the next decade. Here we pull out the key points, explain the impact they may have on older people's care, and suggest some questions for BGS members to ask local decision-makers.
BGS key messages have been developed to provide members and multidisciplinary colleagues with topline information about specific issues relating to older people's healthcare. We encourage discussion of these issues with decision-makers and other stakeholders.
This chapter sets explains what proactive care is, introducing the core components and key enablers for delivery.
This publication outlines how to deliver proactive care against core components and key enablers, acting as a roadmap for implementing the NHS England framework and delivering proactive care services. This introduction includes a foreword, executive summary and an outline of the 12 recommendations.
This report examines the geriatrician workforce needed to provide high-quality care for an ageing population with increasingly complex needs.
This report looks at data collected by the Royal College of Physicians on the consultant workforce.
Presentations from 2021 South East and South West Thames Joint Region Meeting (4 CPD Points)
Read our letters to the Health Ministers in each of the four nations of the UK asking them to take urgent action to protect older people during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
GeriGPs and the GeriGP group of the BGS offer a constructive solution to some of the challenges facing the NHS.
The BGS SE & SW Thames Joint Region Meeting 2019 was held on 16 October 2019 in West Sussex.
Over 400,000 older people in the UK live in care homes, including nearly one in six over-85s, and they often have complex health and social care needs. We have produced guidance for commissioners to promote better models of medical care for care home residents.
The BGS regularly responds to external consultations by the UK government and those of the devolved nations that relate to older people's health, social care and wider issues, such as workforce. On this page you can find copies of our responses to recent consultations.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people encourages the multidisciplinary team to consider social, practical and emotional needs.
As winter approaches, BGS members across the country will be considering the impact that the change in seasons will have on their patients and services. These 12 actions are intended as a guide to the core components of safe, high-quality care for older people that are transferable between care settings.
Proactive care involves acting early to prevent, delay or manage the effects of frailty. This issue explores some innovative ideas from BGS members, and introduces our recent Be Proactive reports. This content is limited to members only.
This final chapter provides a conclusion, as well as appendices including case studies of successfully implemented proactive care services.
In this chapter, we set out eight key recommendations which are crucial to the success of proactive care services across community and primary care settings in the UK.
This chapter goes into greater depth about the five core components and three key enablers for delivery.
This document outlines evidence for proactive care and support for older adults with moderate to severe frailty.
This BGS position statement sets out the benefits of less than full time (LTFT) working in geriatric medicine for both individuals and organisations, and provides six guiding principles as well as tips for successful flexible working.
This report summarises a roundtable event hosted by the BGS on 20 June 2024.