Professional groups

The BGS Pharmacy Group represents pharmacists among the BGS membership. Frailty, pharmacy, medicines management and deprescribing are increasingly relevant in older adults' care, and this BGS group, alongside the Medicines Optimisation Special Interest Group (SIG), aim to support professionals involved in this area of care.

The BGS Care Homes Group has been formed in response to the growing interest in the specific issues relating to older people living in residential care.

The majority of interactions older people have in relation to their health take place in primary and community care. The BGS Community and Primary Care Group has been formed in response to an increasingly strong emphasis on care closer to home for older people, with the aim of reducing avoidable hospital admission and the associated risk of potential harms such as deconditioning and delayed discharge. 

Community geriatrics aims to provide expert healthcare to older people with complex health problems in a community setting.

The British Geriatrics Society welcomes medical students as members. Meet geriatricians of international renown. Network with researchers and explore collaborations. Membership of the BGS is absolutely free to medical students.

The BGS Rehabilitation Group is a task and finish group assembled to address the issues surrounding rehabilitation and loss of function as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

One of our primary goals is to promote high quality research into the health and wellbeing of older people. Encouraging and disseminating research is overseen by our Research and Academic Committee. They develop resources for prospective and experienced researchers and maintain our Research Centres map. 

Are you retiring from active practice, or have you retired? There is no need to end your relationship with the British Geriatrics Society. There are favourable membership rates for retired members and annual activities for retired BGS members and their partners

Specialty and Associate Specialist (SAS) doctors are senior physicians with at least four years' postgraduate training, including two or more within the specialty.

Our Trainees group represent the ideas and opinions of trainees within the BGS. We provide a forum for the discussion of issues relevant to the trainees; engage with students and junior doctors interested in pursuing geriatric medicine as their specialty and encourage the effective training of future geriatricians.