Consultant Geriatrician - Birmingham, United Kingdom - University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
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Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB)

Services unique to QEHB site include:
*Further development of the peri-operative geriatrics service aiding specialist input into emergency general surgical and silver major trauma patients. An additional role will be establishing a geriatrician in the newly formed multi-disciplinary Extended Post-operative Care Units and expansion of the peri-operative service to tertiary surgical specialities such as cardiothoracics and neurosurgery. *Expansion of the complex regional Parkinson's disease clinic with links to the neurosciences and neurosurgical departments for interventions such as Deep Brain Stimulation. *Increasing development of academic geriatric medicine, linked to the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing at the University of Birmingham.


Regular NIHR academic clinical fellows and lecturers, with an increasing portfolio of investigator led studies, focussing on biological mechanisms of ageing, multi-morbidity and sarcopenia.

*Support to inpatients at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Norman Power Centre providing specialist geriatric expertise to the city's population.

Opportunities at West Heath and Mosely Hall Hospital include stroke and trauma rehabilitation whilst the focus at Norman Power Unit is to support the best route out of hospital for patients who require a more appropriate care setting whilst awaiting the next stage in their care.

*Unique opportunity to be involved in the expansion of OPAL+, a collaborative partnership between the OPAL team at QEHB and the West Midlands Ambulance Service.


The service launched in March 2020 and since then crews have used video technology to avoid unnecessary transfers to hospitals.

OPAL+ has close links to the Early Intervention and Community Palliative Care Teams and is looking forward to joint working with the Community Mental Health Team in the near future.

Birmingham Heartlands Hospital (BHH)

Services unique to BHH site include:
*The opportunity to join a well-established team of front door/interface geriatricians to improve the patient's journey in hospital. The post holder will have a chance to take part in service development to establish an acute admissions assessment unit for frail older adults as well as take part in our OPAL service (older people's assessment and liaison service), an MDT team that provides CGA in ED and the medical assessment unit.


The OPAL multidisciplinary model is now firmly embedded at the Good Hope site, with excellent links now built between OPAL and community teams within Birmingham and South Staffordshire.

Developments currently planned include establishing a virtual link between the OPAL team and local intermediate care centres, developing the use of technology to support patients within these centres, and building links with GPs to provide enhanced support to frail patients in the community.

*Community wards based on the Good Hope site provide an excellent opportunity for consultants wishing to develop links between acute and community wards, and build further relationships with community partners and drive forward the progress made already with early supported discharge pathways.

*Opportunity to lead Parkinson's disease service, developing and expanding the service available to patients with Parkinson's disease on this site
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