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It is with a degree of sadness that I have to report that this is the pen-ultimate volume of the CME Journal Geriatric Medicine that I shall edit. The British Geriatrics Society (BGS) has decided that the time has come to review its provision of CME and will no longer be financially supporting the provision of the journal to its members. On the one hand I feel this is regrettable; whilst BGS members get their CME from a wide variety of sources, members have generally been very positive in their feedback regarding the CME Journal Geriatric Medicine. I am also unclear as to how else the BGS expects to be able to meet the CME needs of its members, other than through its scientific meetings. On the other hand, I breathe a sigh of relief, as the role of editor has been increasingly one of frustration, as it has proven ever harder to populate the journal with material of educational value. However, I feel that we have managed to maintain the journal’s standard and provide a useful resource to both trainees and consultants. I am immensely grateful to the authors included in this volume and the subsequent (last under my editorship) volume of the journal, for not only producing material worthy of publication but, in some cases, doing this to a very high standard in a remarkably short time frame.

The publishers intend to continue the CME Journal Geriatric Medicine and I wish my successor (TBC) every success. Despite my recent frustrations with garnering sufficient worthy material I have enjoyed the last decade as editor and trust that I am leaving a legacy of a quality educational publication which I hope to see thrive.

I hope you will find this edition of the journal useful. For the trainees who, I know, have particularly valued the MCQs with each article – a shameless plug for our MCQ book (Forsyth and Wallis, OUP. Published 2014)!

Duncan R Forsyth