Become a member of the BGS

Membership Rates 2024*

The quickest and easiest way to join is online. Please complete an online application for BGS membership here. For any further questions, or difficulties completing your membership application, please email membership@bgs.org.uk.

If you have been a BGS member and wish to renew, please log into your BGS website account. On the landing page for your account there is a renew function. If this is not available or you don't have access to your BGS account please contact membership@bgs.org.uk

For those medics and health care professionals not on a training pathway, we welcome your membership and recognise the valuable roles undertaken in these posts. For simplicity, we have grouped members into four bands and your fee level is determined by your professional job title. For example, SAS Grade doctors, not on the CESR pathway membership fee would be in Category B.

For a Foundation Year Doctor whose training continues beyond FY2, you would still be eligible for free membership in Category D. If you are employed in a clinical fellow or SHO role, you would be eligible for membership in Category B.

Please do reach our membership officer with your individual queries via membership@bgs.org.uk.

No, we welcome members from all over the world. Overseas membership fee is calculated respectively from your profession and extended a 50% discount off the UK annual membership fee for the membership category you are aligned too. You will receive all the membership benefits, including a online subscription to the Age and Ageing journal.

Many of our members are hospital consultants specialising in the care of older people, but you don't have to be a doctor to join.

Our membership is truly multidisciplinary so if you are a nurse, advanced clinical practitioner, pharmacist, occupational therapist, or any other allied healthcare professional with an interest in the healthcare of older people, you are welcome to join.

All healthcare staff groups involved in direct patient care or services and professionals who have a high degree of autonomy, able to provide care in complex situations and who may also lead services for older people are also welcome to join.

If you are a lecturer, academic or researcher into ageing and ageing related processes, you would be eligible to join.

If you work for a corporate entity, outside the NHS or academia, then the standard membership fee is applicable (Cat A). For example, a pharmaceutical or medical device company.

Free membership is open to all undergraduate medical students, student nurses and AHP students at a UK medical school. It is also open to Foundation Year 1 – 2 and Academic Foundation Year 1 – 2 Doctors as well as Nurses and AHPs in their Preceptorship year.

Medical student and Foundation Year Doctors - Members in this category must be undergraduate students based in the UK, at a UK medical school or a UK based foundation year doctor. Postgraduate students are not included.

Nurses and AHPs - Members in this category must be on an undergraduate course leading to a clinical career in health and based in the UK, or in their Preceptorship Year. Postgraduate students, or those studying for advanced qualifications such as ANPs, are not included in this category.

Yes. For members currently on, or about to take parental leave, a 50% reduced rate of the annual membership subscription is applied for all paying categories of membership.  This rate is applied to one year of membership,  which will be the year in which the greatest part of the member's parental leave falls. To apply for this discount, please select this option during your application or renewal. When applying for this discount, you will need to upload supporting documentation to confirm your eligibility. This can be a letter or email confirming your parental leave dates.

Yes. Those working 60% Full Time Equivalent (FTE) or less are extended a discount. To apply for this discount, please select this option during your application or renewal. When applying for this discount, you will need to upload supporting documentation to confirm your eligibility. This can be a letter or email from your employer confirming your 60% LTFT post or a copy of your contract.

Please note, you will need to re-apply for this discount each year.

Yes. As our retired members form a key part of our membership, the BGS offers a 50% reduction in membership fees against their current membership category.

Continuing as a retired member allows you to still be an active part of the Society, and receive all of the membership benefits it has to offer. These include reduced rates for attendance at conferences and online subscription to the Age and Ageing journal.

We have now moved to a sustainable, flexible option of providing access to the Age and Ageing journal online only. This is included in your membership and can be accessed via the BGS and OUP website using your login details for your BGS account.

When you sign into your BGS account, scroll down your account page to find the pink button which reads 'View journal'. Once you click on this button, a new browser window will open to the OUP website where you can search all new and past journals/articles. Please note, you must use this new window rather than any previous windows that you may have previously had opened. The window that opens following your BGS account will be synced with your membership so that’s how you will be able to view full articles.

Category C memberships can continue to opt out of receiving the journal digitally.

Subscriptions to Age and Ageing are available for Institutions and Corporate Subscribers. Individuals are encouraged to access the journal with a BGS membership. Further details are available online here.

Membership of the British Geriatrics Society costs no more than £195 and includes online subscription to the journal for most membership categories.

It is sad to hear when BGS members have died. But please let us know, so that we update our records, and can ensure no further membership payments are collected or unnecessary communications sent. You can notify us by emailing Disha Rabadia at membership@bgs.org.uk with the following details; full name of the person who has died, date of birth, home address and the date of death. We would need this information confirmed and verified to allow us to update our records.

BGS are keen to pay tribute to the life and work of our members who have worked so hard to improve healthcare for older people. We invite any family members, friends or colleagues to share their memories of the professional by writing an obituary which we would publish on our website and/or in our Newsletter. We also welcome tributes for those who are not members of the Society but have contributed to the BGS mission of improving healthcare for older people. For more information on this or to send your contribution, please email Mark Stewart at m.stewart@bgs.org.uk.

We can offer a 20% discount on the Open Access fees when publishing in Age and Ageing journal for members of the British Geriatrics Society. If you are a BGS member and would like to apply this offer, please email Katy at aa@bgs.org.uk with your membership number.

We are keen to strengthen the BGS’s multidisciplinary ethos and to enable nurses and AHPs to take advantage of lower membership fees if they join as part of a group. Group membership is available to teams and organisational units, providing a cost-effective way to sample the majority of benefits available to individual members. 

If you are interested in finding out about a Group membership for your team or workplace, please contact membership@bgs.org.uk

Some benefits available to individual members are not included in this category.