| BGS
Newsletter Online |
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David Oliver |
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Index
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Implementing the Stroke Strategy
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President's Column |
Editorial
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The Stroke Strategy for England brings tremendous opportunity for developing services for all people with stroke and at risk of stroke.
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The new qualification, the MRCP (Geriatric Medicine) will be available only to those who have completed a UK-based training programme in geriatric medicine
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I've had numerous conversations with journalists, trying to highlight the fact that whilst MSRA or poor hospital nutrition, mixed sex or dirty wards are all important issues
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Medical Practice and the Care Home
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Mental Capacity - a round up of views |
Tooke Report - from a trainee's perspective |
As a specialty, we need to re-engage with our primrary care colleagues in delivery of care to those in care comes, and in other community settings.
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Adults in Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 - Consent and proxies
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The introduction of the MCA 2005 - coal face views of a psychiatrist in England More>>
Social Work and the MCA
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The current cohort of SpRs and ST3s in geriatric medicine face uncertainty surrounding consultant appointments post-CCT. Last year, 58 consultant posts in geriatric medicine were advertised, whilst 103 CCTs were completed.
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| BGS Wales Office |
BGS Spring Scientific Meeting -
Glasgow 2008 |
The British Geriatrics Society (Wales) recently moved its administrative headquarters to the Ty John Pathy offices in Cardiff, which already houses Age Concern Cymru, Age Alliance Wales and a number of national pensioner organisations.
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"We were told the three major issues facing us were climage change, the provision of clean water and ageing and demography...that's the size of the issue and the company it keeps."
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Trainees column
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Non-clinical training of UK higher trainees in geriatric medicine |
Letters to the Editor |
The greater part of the meeting was spent discussing trainees' views on the Knowledge Based Assessment, this being the main issue that I have been concerned with since becoming Chair of the trainees committee
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The training of doctors is not confined to the clinical domain; generic non-clinical skills including quality assurance, teaching and research are all emphasised in the revised training scheme.
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The BGS, by any other name >>
Darzi Review >>
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| Age & Ageing Online |
eGuidelines.co.uk - Find out how they can help you |
Sometimes there's something delicious in oblivion (film review) |
Are you aware that as a subscriber to Age and Ageing, you have free access to the journal online? In fact, every issue of Age and Ageing has been archived on our website and you can access any article or supplement we have published since 1972
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eGuidelines.co.uk aims to promote best practice in UK healthcare. It is brought to you by the publishers of the Guidelines handbook and the Guidelines in Practice monthly journal.
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The film, "Away from her" is based on the short book by Alice Munro, "The bear came over the mountain", and is set in Canada. It observes the emotions of a couple who have been married for 50 years when the wife goes into a care home.
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