The March 2013 issue of the BGS newsletter is out now. Visit the online archive of newsletters here.
Highlights of this issue are:
- Commissioning hip fracture care – the NICE way
- Editorial
- President’s Column
- What the Francis Report means for geriatrics, the BGS, our patients and their families
- Francis Report – A Nursing Perspective
- Quality Matters
- Early Diagnosis of Dementia
- National Audit of Intermediate Care – 2012 Results and 2013 Plans
- Total Nutrition Therapy Geriatric – a two-day residential educational course for clinicians on nutrition in older people
- Heart Failure – A Multi-Disciplinary Approach – Conference Report
- NHS Consultants’ Association – against commercialisation and fragmentation of the NHS
- Reaching out to the community A geriatrician in the West Berkshire community
- What are we twittering on about then? An update on the BGS digital media strategy
- Supporting tomorrow’s peer reviewers
- BGS Communications Update
- Policy Update
- In Memoriam – Howard Davies (1924 – 2012)
- Luminaries of Geriatric Medicine – Trevor Howell
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