🟪 Special Issue: "Improving Healthcare for Older People: Selected Papers from the United Kingdom and Ireland" edited by Dr. Harnish P. Patel and Dr. Victoria L. Keevil is open for #submissions Deadline: June 2022 📜mdpi.com/journal/geriat… @vkeevil Harnish P Patel

.Royal College of General Practitioners More than 30 years on, the Gatekeeper and Wizard fable (from Nigel Mathers and Paul Hodgkin) is still helping to illustrate our interdependency in medicine.

This is so great. I love it #workingtogether bmj.com/content/375/bm…

"It’s easy for narratives of blame to arise between primary and secondary care, but all I saw was a genuine respect for, and efforts to support, secondary care." A hospital consultant and GP on what they learnt from spending time in each other's shoes bmj.com/content/375/bm…

Primary and secondary care need each other "but this recognition of our mutual dependence can easily become lost, especially amid the stresses of the past two years." A hospital consultant and GP on what they learnt from spending time in each other's shoes bmj.com/content/375/bm…

dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-… Implementation of treatment escalation plans in an old age psychiatry inpatient hospital

A pas de deux of osteoporosis and sarcopenia: osteosarcopenia tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Please vote for our Sarcopenia paper!!

🚨New BGS Blog! One in ten older people are malnourished or at risk of being malnourished in the UK, explains BGS Nutrition and GI SIG Chair, Harnish P Patel ⚠️ WARNING: Contains puns. bgs.org.uk/blog/weight-ju…

Lovely little blog, a play on words with an important message about nutrition in older people! Read it here: bgs.org.uk/blog/weight-ju…

Integrated care for people living with dementia sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Register your interest for exciting new PhD opportunities in world-class experimental medicine. Up to 12 PhD studentships will launch at NIHR Southampton BRC in September. The BRC is a partnership between @Unisouthampton & @uhsft funded by National Institute for Health and Care Research. bit.ly/3sGnb5H

Angry about not getting a GP appointment? Operation cancelled? No NHS dental appointments? Listen to this. There is a staffing crisis across the entire NHS. Fail to recruit, pay, train and look after your staff - unsurprisingly they won’t come back!

Pioneering clinical research in Southampton has received massive boost with the award of over £10 million for NIHR Southampton CRF from National Institute for Health and Care Research. The facility will now grow its delivery of ground-breaking studies that improve patient treatments and care. bit.ly/3IR8Eeg

Just published, a nice little article Well done Jess and Steph! Shared decision making and personalised care support planning: pillars... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Hello to @OlderTrialsProf and @HPPatel_sotonon at the #BGSconf Frailty, Sarcopenia and Nutrition session. Harnish and Miles wrote together "Gatekeepers, wizards, and a mutual appreciation of each other’s kingdoms" which I enjoyed very much! bmj.com/content/375/bm… The BMJ

Obesity in later life may cause our muscles to age faster. clinicalresearch.uhs.nhs.uk/news/obesity-i…

Short clip highlighting how precariously positioned primary care is at present. Please can government stand up and listen. Please re- tweet and share. For our friends, colleagues and spouses. GPs from Coastal flying the flag youtu.be/V_DG1KBFlv0