Arshad Rather – Medelit Home Visiting Consultant in Geriatrics and General Medicine

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Profile and Clinical Excellence

Arshad Rather is a Consultant physician in Geriatric and General Medicine in University College Hospital. Arshad is part of Medelit’s healthcare team and carries out Elderly Medicine Home visit with us.

His postgraduate training was mainly in northwest London at Imperial college hospitals NHS trust. He is lead clinician for Acute Geriatrics at University College hospital. His specialist interests are in Parkinson’s disease, heart failure and frailty in older adults. He also takes a keen interest in managing falls, syncope, delirium, dementia, peri-operative care, bone health, stroke care, rehabilitation and chronic diseases like heart failure and hypertension. geriatrician london

He believes in patient safety and clinical governance. He is Audit lead at university college hospital. rather consultant geriatrician

His approach to professional excellence is simple. He treats people as he would like members of his own family to be treated. He is approachable, friendly, and try to establish empathy early in a consultation. He believes in “getting it right first time”. This means more than getting the diagnosis right. It means finding out what the patient hopes for and expects from treatment, and explaining the limitations and risks of treatment. consultant elderly london

Speciality

General Medicine and Medicine for Elderly with specialist interest in: rather consultant geriatrician

– Complex diagnostic problems and holistic review of patients with multiple medical problems, including review of medicines
– Parkinson’s disease
– Falls, frailty and rehabilitation
– Stroke
– Dementia, Delirium and memory impairment
– Assessment of capacity
– Depression in the older person
– Medical care of surgical patients (perioperative medicine)
– Osteoporosis and bone health
– Continence management
– Hypertension, Heart Failure and other chronic disease management
– Acute General medical problems and early diagnostic work up for multiple symptomatologies.

Research and publications

1. Arshad HR & Qureshi A: The Non-motor symptoms of Parkinson Disease and their management: Clinical Focus Primary Care: Rila Publications Ltd, London, publication March 2016
2. Amer H & Rather A: Heart Failure in the Older Patient; Clinical Focus, Primary Care: Rila Publications Ltd, London publication May 2016
3. Principal Investigator at University College London for ongoing FRAILsafe study. The FRAILsafe project is supported by a Health Foundation ‘Closing the Gap in Patient Safety’ award. FRAILsafe aims to improve measured quality of care for frail older patients admitted to NHS hospitals with medical emergencies by July 2016.
4 He was a collaborator a national survey of junior doctors’ understanding of delirium as a Hospital. The work will be collated with intended publication in “Age and Ageing”. It is a repeat of a previous study done 5 years ago in light of the NICE guidelines on delirium and increased prominence of delirium in education. It will be published soon under group authorship
5. He has also completed a 10,000 word original dissertation as a part of my Master’s degree in Health Care Management at University of Surrey Guildford. This was a retrospective study looking at the failure of Indian healthcare systems to achieve “Health for all by year 2000” pledged to United Nations

Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching

He provides teaching to junior and senior medical students attached to his team at regular bedside teaching sessions, during a weekly teaching Ward Round and in outpatient clinics.
He has been contributed to develop curriculum in geriatric medicine for undergraduate teaching. He delivers regular teaching sessions to medical students. He also takes part in weekly multidisciplinary teaching in elderly medicine department. He contributes to NE Thames regional SPR training days.  rather consultant geriatrician

He regularly delivers teaching sessions to the GP’s in North London. He is also closely involved with primary care neurology society delivering teaching to General practitioners on Parkinson’s disease at deanery level in association with royal college of GP’s. rather consultant geriatrician

 Elderly and General Medicine Home Visits

Currently Dr Rather is part of Medelit’s healthcare team and carries out Geriatric and General Medicine Home Visits throughout London, regularly assisting elderly patients with various age-related health issues directly in the privacy of their home. 

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