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| Editor: David Oliver | Index
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| Responding to the Stroke Strategy - |
President's Column | Editorial |
It is unlikely that any geriatrician would disagree with the entirely reasonable statement made by Damient Jenkinson and Roger Boyle when they say
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Graham Mulley and I presented the Founder's Medal to George Adams at his home in Oxfordshire More>> |
As Shaw said, "All progress is achieved by the actions of the unreasonable man," and perhaps we all need to become a little more "unreasonable", in highlighting the needs of older patients |
| Knowledge based assessment - review and update |
BGS awards give medical students new perspective on elderly care - The STRONG project | The NSF Wales - has the NSF had any effect on the culture of elderly care? |
Background to and progress on KBA
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See Carly Walker's experience of a not so new, but greatly under-used treatment for frail older people More>> |
In the preamble to the document National Service Framework (NSF) for Older people in Wales, the Welsh Assembly Government set out its vision for the NSF for older people in Wales More>> |
| The future of safeguarding adults in England: the review begins | Social care in the 21st century - one of the great issues of our time | Always a last resort - antipsychotic prescribing in care homes |
An event aimed at the Social Care Community and their "key partners" as the Pre-consultation phase on "Reviewing No Secretes - Reviewing Safeguarding" |
In May, the government launched a large-scale and long awaited nationwide consultation on how social care should be funded in future. More>> |
Dementia is emerging as a key issue in health and social care. The number of people with dementia in the UK is forecast to increase by nearly 40% over the next 15 years More>> |
| Great ideas of our time - Clostridium difficile wards |
BGS Cardiovascular Section - Conference Report | Letters to the Editor |
| 'A desperate disease requires a desperate remedy', Guy Fawkes is reputed to have said after being caught trying to blow up Parliament More>> |
The BGS Cardiovascular Section co-hosted a session with the British Society of Heart Failure at the recent British Cardiac Society Annual General Meeting More>> | The BGS, by any other name >> |
| BGS Grants Report | Big business: King's Fund report | The Expert Witness Institute - impartial independent expertise for justice |
| BGS Grant report More>> | The opening statement of the latest King's Fund report unequivocally outlines the financial enormity of mental health care when it says: "Mental health is big business" |
The EWI services and supports experts. Its objective is to support the proper administration of justice and the early resolution of disputes through fair and unbiased expert evidence |