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Editor: Kevin Kelleher
September 2003
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Editorial Column  President's Column GPs & Geriatricians

The editorial team welcomes our new Chief Executive, Alex Mair. He joins us in late September 2003
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It occured to me what a huge debt we owe the generation of doctors who qualified just before or in the early years of the Second World War
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The publication of the NSF for older people and the relentless pressure on acute hospital beds continue to increase the pressures on all services for older people
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BGS Autumn Meeting The "Living Will" BGS New Chief Executive

May this serve as advanced warning that the Autumn Scientific Meeting will, next year in 2004, be held in Harrogate and not in London.
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In 1995, the issue of “advance directives” received an airing in the context of a House of Commons debate on the subject.
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Alex Mair will be succeeding Richard Lynham as administrative head of the Society in October.
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BGS Councils What resources should I have? Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration

Update on England and Wales National Councils
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The BGS Office regularly receives telephone calls from consultants and other bodies asking for advice on BGS standards related to resources needed for geriatric departments.
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 The Society through its governing bodies, has for many years expressed its support for a closer working relationship with our colleagues in the allied health professions. 
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Congress of Gerontology - Barcelona Continuing Professional Development Letters to the Editor
It was a great pleasure to represent the BGS when I attended the Vth European Congress of Gerontology at the spectacular Congress Palace of Montjuïc in Barcelona during July.
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is one of the responsibilities of the RCP London.

BGS to adopt Geriatric Medicine CME Journal.
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 We must challenge the concept of geriatric medicine as a hospital-based specialty when it is the broadest of disciplines in which General Practitioners play an important role
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Barcelona scene and link to article
BGS Cyberworld Update Trainees' Page
The British Geriatrics Society has never shied away from embracing new technology as a means to communicating with the membership
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European Academy for Medicine of Ageing

Trainees meeting - October 2003
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Notices

Obituary
Prof Desmond Montgomery

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