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Perioperative Medicine for Older People: The POPS approach

3rd December 2025, 7-8pm

The Preoperative Association is delighted to introduce a series of webinars, designed to support anaesthetic trainees with meeting learning outcomes from the RCoA syllabus. The first webinar in this series concerns the perioperative assessment and care of the older person being considered for surgery.

The perioperative care of people with frailty and multi-morbidity should be tailored to support their individual needs. This is an area all perioperative physicians will encounter as the volume of surgery performed on this population is growing. The POPS (Perioperative Care for Older People Undergoing Surgery) approach espouses the early integration of geriatricians into the care of the older person considering surgery and the utilisation of CGA (Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment) methodology. This webinar aims to share experience and guidance for incorporating POPS principles into perioperative planning for older patients. Anaesthetic consultants, non-consultants, nurses and pharmacists are also welcome to attend.

Guest Speaker

Prof. Jugdeep Dhesi

PhD FRCP

Consultant Geriatrician

Jugdeep established the innovative award-winning POPS service at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

She is President of the British Geriatrics
Society, Deputy Director at the Centre for Perioperative Care, Honorary Professor
at King’s College London, and Associate
Professor at UCL. Her research spans
preoperative assessment, health
services, and postoperative delirium. 

Jugdeep has extensive experience in
guiding and advising groups like NELA, RCoA, BGS, NICE, EuGMS, and ANZCA. Jugdeep has developed training programs in perioperative medicine, co-authored e-learning and MSc modules.