What do we do:
Borders General Hospital
- DME Ward 10 (acute geriatric assessment and rehabilitation)
- Borders stroke unit
- Day hospital (outpatient clinics)
- Main outpatient department
- DME consultants also have responsibility for general medical inpatients in wards 4,5,MAU,12
Community Hospitals
- DME consultants also have responsibility for some in patients within the community hospitals
About our Services:
DME provides specialist medical care and treatment for elderly patients (generally over 65s) and all stroke patients both within the BGH and through our out patient services.
BGH Inpatients
- DME ward 10 (acute geriatric assessment / rehabilitation)
- Border stroke unit (acute assessment and rehabilitation)
- Medical / surgical / orthopaedic wards
- DME consultants provide specialist review of inpatients on request from the ward terms.
- DME consultants are also responsible for general medical inpatients
BGH Outpatients
- General medical / geriatric assessment clinics
- Syncope and falls clinics
- Neurovascular (stroke) clinics – one stop clinic for investigation of possible stroke
- Parkinson’s disease clinic
- Cardiovascular clinic (one stop specialty clinic for older patients with possible heart disease)
- Osteoporosis clinic
Community Hospitals:
- DME consultants visit each community hospital on a weekly basis. They are currently responsible for some community hospital in patients (generally frail elderly patients)
- Specialist review of patients on request of the patient’s GP
How to contact us:
Tel: 01896 826000 ( extension - DME office/ individual consultants secretaries)
Staff List:
- Dr Janet Bennison (Consultant Physician in DME and General Medicine, Associate Medical Director)
- Dr Jennifer Inglis (Consultant Physician in DME and General Medicine, Clinical Director for DME and Stroke)
- Dr Andrew McLaren (Consultant Physician in DME and General Medicine)
- Dr Rachel Stewart (Consultant Physician in DME and General Medicine)
- Dr Jenny Lonnen (Consultant Physician in DME and General Medicine)
- Dr Susan Kerr (Consultant Physician in Stroke and General Medicine)
- Dr Ruwan Parakrama (Consultant Physician in Stroke and General Medicine)
- Dr Carol Norris (Consultant Physician in DME Outpatients)
- Mr Gareth Clinkscale (Service Manager)
How to access our service:
For inpatients:
- Referrals are made to DME by the individual ward medical teams.
For outpatients
- GP referrals for all clinics.
- Some referrals direct from other hospital departments (e.g. A+E, medical unit)
Where are we:
Department of Medicine for the Elderly
Borders General Hospital
Melrose
TD6 9BS
Telephone: 01896 826000 (DME office / individual consultants secretaries)