03
Nov
2021

2021 South East and South West Thames Joint Region Meeting

28 - 30 April 2021
Online
Topics include
Deconditioning & rehabilitation
Emergency care
Peri-operative care for surgical patients
Healthy ageing
Integrated care
Prescribing and medication management
Digital health & technology
Allied healthcare professionals
Education, training and careers
Health and social care policy
Nursing
Research
Workforce
Delirium
Dementia
Mental health
Stroke
#BGSConf
@GeriSoc
This meeting has applied for 15 credits of live CPD credit (expires 30 May 2021) and 15 credits Distance learning CPD accreditation (expires 30 April 2022) from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP)

This event is a local forum covering the latest scientific research and the best clinical practice in care of older people. This meeting will cover core areas of interest to all specialists responsible for the health care of older people and is open to attendees from near and far.

Who should attend:

  • Consultants & specialist doctors in geriatric medicine
  • Researchers into Ageing and Age-Related Conditions 
  • Doctors training in related specialties
  • GPs with an Extended Role in Older People and GP trainees
  • Nurses and allied health professionals
  • Advanced and Specialist practitioners
  • Consultant Practitioners/Consultant Nurses
  • Physician Associates
  • Internal Medicine Trainees (especially those considering a career in geriatric medicine)
  • Medical, Nursing, Allied Health professional students

Why participate:

  • Understand more on the key areas & challenges faced in geriatric medicine  
  • Hear focused presentations on core areas of the geriatric medicine
  • Present the latest scientific research to British Geriatrics Society members and elected officers
  • Attend small group workshop sessions
  • Network & socialise with other healthcare professionals

Programme

09.00

Introduction & Welcome

Dr Gaggandeep Singh Alg and Dr Joanna Preston
Consultant Geriatrician and General Physician, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London

09:15

Mind the Gap - Breaking Down Language and Cultural Barriers

Dr Gaggandeep Singh Alg
Consultant Geriatrician and General Physician, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London. Honorary Senior Lecturer at St Georges School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

 

09.45

Increasing ethnic diversity within AHPs

Mrs Ananthi Puntis, Allied Health Professions Clinical Fellow for London, Health Education England

 

10.15

Break

 

10.30

Decolonising the curriculum

Dr Muna Al-Jawad
Senior Lecturer and Lead for Curriculum Development, BSMS. Honorary Consultant in Elderly Medicine, UHS

 

11.15

Ensuring ”Golden Queers” have good golden years

Dr Dan Bailey
Consultant Geriatrician, Kings College NHS Foundation Trust
Training Programme Director for IMTs in South London

 
12.00  

Poster / Platform presentations

  
13:00

Lunch

  
13.30 Welcome to afternoon session
Dr Laura Ferrigan
Consultant Geriatrician, Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust		  

13.45

     

 

14.10

 

14.35

Developing community services
Integrated care - What the hospital clinician needs to know

Dr Shelagh O’ Riordan
Consultant Community Geriatrician, Clinical Director for Frailty in East Kent and Professional Advisor to NHSEI on Aging Well Programme

QI methodologies in integrated service development at the front door?

Michelle Bull
Transformation Programme Manager - Integrated Care and Frailty 
Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Panel discussion

 

14.45

Refreshments

 

15.00

Business meeting and discussion
Platform and poster presentation winners announced

 

15:30

Closing words

 

Chairs: Dr Laura Ferrigan, Aileen McCartney, Dr Emma Moore and Dr Michael Reid

Cost to attend

  3rd November Non-Member
 Fee (Inc VAT)

3rd November BGS Member
Fee (inc VAT)
Senior Doctors: Consultant / GP

£50

 £25.00

SAS Grade / StR / GP Trainee/IMT/Foundation Year Doctor

 £35 £17.50
Healthcare Professionals: Nurse Allied Health Professional £35 £17.50
Retired/ Medical Student £25 £12.50