Policy & Media

The BGS has launched a new elearning course, to help health and social care professionals identify and manage delirium in older people.

The BGS is delighted to announce that Dr Amit Arora has won the election to be its next President Elect. Dr Arora will officially take up the role during the BGS Autumn Meeting on 20 November 2024. He…

The BGS is holding an election for its next President Elect. Members will be able to vote from 28 June at 9am until 22 July at 9am. 

BGS has today called on the Government, NHS organisations and the voluntary sector to take urgent steps towards transforming care for older people. Our new report is the result of a roundtable event…

Today BGS has joined forces with the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in a letter urging Lord Ara Darzi to focus on older people’s health and social care in…

BGS is delighted to announce His Majesty King Charles III will retain his Patronage of the Society. This decision follows a comprehensive review of more than 1,000 Royal Patronages conducted by the…

We are delighted to announce that Professor Adam Gordon, President of the British Geriatrics Society, has been awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in King Charles III’s Birthday…

Dr Liam Barrett has been awarded a joint British Geriatrics Society/Dunhill Medical Trust Doctoral Training Fellowship to carry out PhD research benefiting the healthcare of older people

The BGS has published ‘Reablement, Rehabilitation, Recovery: Everyone’s Business’. This report focuses on rehabilitation for older people experiencing frailty or loss of function because of acute…

The BGS is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Roy Soiza as the new Editor-in-Chief of its journal, Age and Ageing. Professor Soiza is a Consultant Geriatrician at Aberdeen Royal…

The next round of clinical excellence awards, now known as the National Clinical Impact Awards, is now open

The BGS has published a new report, ‘The state of the consultant geriatrician workforce’. The report analyses data from the most recent UK census of consultant physicians conducted by the Royal…

The BGS has published a new report 'The state of the older people’s healthcare workforce'. The findings in this report were gathered following analysis of a survey of the BGS membership.

The British Geriatrics Society welcomes this new study published on 7 February in the journal Plos One which looked at rates of frailty among older people in England between 2002 and 2018. It found…

The prestigious Dhole-Eddlestone Memorial Prize has been awarded to an Age and Ageing paper which analyses a major Canadian dataset, the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, to determine normative…

The BGS are proud of the role we played in supporting our late friend, colleague and BGS member, Dr Kate Granger, with her #hellomynameis campaign. This approach has now become established as routine…

The BGS is pleased to see that the long-awaited guidance on proactive care, 'Providing care and support for people living at home with moderate or severe frailty', has been published by NHS England…

A new BGS report makes key recommendations for the effective use of a national minimum dataset to deliver the best possible care in UK care homes and domiciliary care.