Presentations from West Midlands Region Autumn Meeting 2021
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The West Midlands Region Autumn Meeting 2021 was an education meeting consisting of updates on services from across the West Midlands. Areas included Frailty, Community, Surgery, GEMs and OPAL services. Some speakers have kindly given us permission to share their slides. Please scroll down to view and download. This content is available to BGS members and non-member attendees only.
Focus on Frailty - Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Shams Duja - Consultant Physician & Geriatrician, The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Duja is a Consultant Physician and Geriatrician at Dudley Group of Hospitals. His special interest is Movement Disorders. He is also Parkinson's Excellence Network Lead for the West Midlands. As Care of the Elderly Department Lead at Dudley Group of Hospitals, he has been leading the Frailty in West Midlands Frailty Collaborative Group at different platforms. Dr Duja is working closely with NHSE and NHSI to improve Frailty services in the region. Currently representing our trust in the development of MCP.
Transforming older peoples’ services - University Hospital of North Midlands
Dr Amit Arora - Consultant Geriatrician and Associate Medical Director, University Hospital of North Midlands
Dr Amit Arora has been a consultant geriatrician in the North Midlands since 2004. He is interested in all aspects of ageing including quality, policy and transformation.
He has served in many national workstreams and is an active member of many advisory bodies related to healthcare and has contributed internationally.
He has over 100 publications including invited book chapters, editorials, reviews and college reports.
He is also the founding director of the Midlands Frailty Academy which provides frailty training to all grades of health and social care workers.
In 2016, he developed the ‘National Deconditioning Awareness and Prevention Campaign: Sit Up Get Dressed Keep Moving’ the concept of which is now being adopted by many hospitals in UK and abroad and is highlighting the importance of activity in hospitalized older people.
Surgical liaison - Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
Dr Huma Naqvi - Consultant Geriatrician, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
Dr Naqvi is a Consultant Geriatrician at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust. Her interests are in Orthogeriatrics, surgical liaison, and looking after older people well. She is also the education lead role Foundation Year 1 Program Director.
Community Geriatrics - The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Dr Stuart Hutchinson - Consultant Geriatrician, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Stuart has spent the last 20 years as a Consultant and is now in his 3rd consultant post. He is currently LTFT in community geriatrics/acute community medicine.
Stuart has spent the last 20 years as a Consultant and is now in his 3rd consultant post. He is currently LTFT in community geriatrics/acute community medicine.
Frailty services - South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Eliza Griffiths - Consultant Geriatrician, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Eliza Griffiths - Consultant Geriatrician, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust is a consultant geriatrician at Warwick hospital with an interest in frailty and Parkinson's disease. She completed the geriatric training programme in the West Midlands.
Tribute to Rod Brooks
Tribute by Dr Peter Mayer
In memory of Dr Roderick Brooks, remembered by Dr Peter Mayer
Frailty/orthogeriatric services - Wye Valley NHS Trust
Dr Emma Wales - Consultant Geriatrician, Wye Valley NHS Trust
Dr Wales is a Consultant based at Hereford Hospital in the Wye Valley NHS Trust.
GEMS at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Dr Muhammad Waqas - Internal Medical Trainee, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Dr Waqas is currently an IMT at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
OPAL at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust
Dr Hardi Hassan – Consultant Geriatrician University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust
Dr Hassan is a Consultant Geriatrician at UHB with a special interest in neurodegeneration and acute Geriatrics.
Educational Supervisor training
Dr Rob Wears - Consultant Geriatrician, University Hospitals of Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Trained in Manchester and graduated in 1986 before moving to the West Midlands. Rob was a Consultant Geriatrician at Solihull Hospital (1994-2020) and is now at Warwick Hospital (November 2020 to date).
Currently Chair Geriatric medicine SAC (RCP), director of quality for WM school of medicine and TPD geriatric medicine (West Midlands). Clinical interests include dementia, Parkinson’s disease and nutrition. Nonclinical interests include puppy walking for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.
