@mcginnesali

Wife, mum and Nurse Consultant in Frailty & Clinical Lead for Older Person Services at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

 Southampton
Joined September 2013
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Join the community of interest to be kept up-to-date with the latest news: r1.dotdigital-pages.com/p/12… (6/6) #AdvancedPractice #Nursing #Midwifery #Healthcare #ProfessionalPractice
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Katrina@Katrina4293948313 Mar 2025
Such a fantastic day with our ACP and consultant practitioner colleagues. Lots of discussion, collaboration and ideas for the future. Our first ACP forum and already excited about the next one in June ⁦@HHFTnhs⁩ ⁦@HHFTCNO⁩ ⁦@NHSE_WTE⁩ ⁦@HIOW_ICS⁩
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Delirium treatment: 🧠 BRAIN CARE + 🤷🏼 MIND CARE #delirium #WDAD2025
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"Initially, I thought advance care planning was very specialist, but I've come to realise that anyone within the care team or family can do it. It's fundamentally about listening, understanding, and sharing the individual's values" #ACPDay2024 bgs.org.uk/blog/the-importan…

The importance of advance care planning in the care of people who have frailty: A personal perspe...

As a palliative care nurse with over three decades of nursing experience and current involvement in hospice care focused on frailty, I have witnessed first hand the vital role advance care planning...

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"If an older adult attends a frailty-attuned ED, #frailtyscreening can be rapidly undertaken by specialist multidisciplinary teams, working collaboratively to provide comprehensive care. This model can reduce ED reattendance or hospital admission." bgs.org.uk/blog/getting-to-t…

Getting to the core of Front Door Frailty Screening

The sprightly 79 year lady seated in front of me in the emergency department (ED) grimaced in pain. Her left knee was swollen and ached. “I keep falling” she sighed

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"World #Delirium Day is an excellent opportunity for us to take stock and see how our understanding of delirium has progressed to date but also to do our bit to raise awareness and understanding of this condition outside of healthcare settings." bgs.org.uk/blog/world-deliri…
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Caroline Leech@LeechCaroline4 Mar 2024
Position statement on asymptomatic patients with head injury who are taking anticoagulants endorsed by @RCollEM @AACE_org @GeriSoc @The_SBNS @UKHaHSoc rcem.ac.uk/wp-content/upload…
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There is an uneven distribution of #geriatricians across the UK, with urban areas typically being better served. This is despite non-metropolitan areas being more likely to have ageing populations. bgs.org.uk/policy-and-media/…

New BGS report exposes continuing shortage of geriatricians

The BGS has published a new report, ‘The state of the consultant geriatrician workforce’. The report analyses data from the most recent UK census of consultant physicians conducted by the Royal...

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"Without rehabilitation older people being discharged from hospital experience further deterioration of their health. On average 15% of older people being discharged from hospital are readmitted within 28 days." Supporting #RightToRehab via #BGSblueprint bgs.org.uk/Blueprint

Joining the dots: A blueprint for preventing and managing frailty in older people

In this blueprint we set out system touchpoints and actions for high-quality integrated care for older people.

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Free to read: 15 key pieces of research on syncope in older people. Increasingly important given the overlap with falls. Awareness of causes of syncope, state-of-the-art assessment and treatment, is a priority in our field academic.oup.com/ageing/page… @OUPAcademic @OUPMedicine
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In this document, the BGS sets out five principles that should underpin #FrontDoorFrailty services. It provides tips on establishing services from those who have been through the process. Find out more bgs.org.uk/FrontDoorFrailty
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Andrew Clegg@drandyclegg22 Jan 2024
New paper on priorities for research from the perspective of older people. 1.Prevention/management 2.Improving health/care service provision 3.Improving daily life 4.Meeting carer needs 5.Planning ahead academic.oup.com/ageing/arti… @Age_and_Ageing @NIHR_ARC_YH @GeriSoc @SpillersK

What are the priorities for research of older people living in their own home, including those...

AbstractBackground. There is limited evidence regarding the needs of older people, including those living with frailty, to inform research priority setting

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BGS is proud to support this new campaign from @Ageing_Better: @agewithoutlimit which aims to educate and tackle #ageism in all its forms including in healthcare. Get involved and join the movement. Visit the link to find out more: agewithoutlimits.org #AgeWithoutLimits
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🌟🌟 It's finally complete! 🌟🌟 Thank you to Claire Carter in @OUHospitals OMI dept for helping design this poster with me to help #medical and #nursing staff identify #frailty on #AAU. Already helped today teaching new #doctors to the team. @ouh_therapies
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Replying to @JKDhesi
@JKDhesi highlights work that BGS is doing to share best practice to help colleagues to learn from each other, particularly our most recently published #FrontDoorFrailty resource. #BGSconf You can find that here: bgs.org.uk/frontdoorfrailty

Front door frailty: Advice on setting up services

In this document, the BGS sets out five principles that should underpin front door frailty services, as well as tips on establishing services from those who have been through the process.

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A shared strategy to measure healthy ageing helps us to unite in diversity and understand the issues that matter to older people academic.oup.com/ageing/issu… #HealthyAgeing @WHO @GeriSoc @OUPAcademic @OUPMedicine
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Pathway planning moved to earlier in the patient journey in order to ensure discharge without delay says @Lyndseydunn7. #BGSconf
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📢Frailty elearning free to all! We're delighted to share that our frailty elearning has been updated and relaunched and is FREE to all health and care professionals, thanks to funding from @NHSEngland! Sign up today to improve your frailty knowledge. bgs.org.uk/policy-and-media/…
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Howell Jones@howelltjones22 Sep 2023
#GeriatricEmergencyMedicine Results from @UHSFT Post @NICEComms on #headinjury. Low rate of bleeding, bleeding associated with high risk injury +/- clinical signs, time to stop scanning? Can we therefore keep people at home? @GeriSoc @RCollEM @EuGMSSociety #EuGMS2023 #EuGMS
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Lucy Pollock@lucypgeridoc23 Sep 2023
601 CT head scans. 5 bleeds, 4 of which predicted by high risk status. So 596 people no benefit from scan and many will have had unseen harm- a trip to ED, fear or pain in scanner, a hospital stay, ‘deconditioning’ aka ‘got worse in hospital’ - we need to change this!
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