The UK versus the Netherlands: Where would you want your grandmother to be looked after?

Barry Evans and Rachel Cowan are Specialty Trainees in Geriatric Medicine currently working as Clinical Fellows in Quality Improvement for Integrated Medicine in the East Midlands. They recently had the opportunity to undertake an exchange with Anouk Kabboord – Elderly Care Physician trainee in the Netherlands.

At a time when the European narrative is being rewritten, a common challenge facing all European nations is population ageing. Seeing and learning from different European countries’ responses to an ageing population is an invaluable opportunity to learn, discuss and share innovation between countries. As part of Health Education East Midlands’ Quality Improvement Fellowship, we were recently able to set up an exchange between the UK and the Netherlands for geriatricians in training to see and learn from each other’s working environments.