Health care professionals are being asked to provide the Associate Parliamentary Group on Skin (APGS) with written observations and experiences of managing and treating skin conditions in the over-65s.
The group aims to establish the prevalence and severity of skin diseases in older people, to discuss training issues and to identify areas of concern, such as "deprioritisation" of chronic skin conditions due to old age or multiple illness. This should help health care professionals to establish protocols for skin disease management in these patients, according to the group's chairman, Mr Bruce George (Lab, Walsall South).
Written evidence can be submitted on no more than four sides of A4 paper to APGS administration, 3-19 Holmbush Road, London SW15 3LE. The findings of the group will be published in the summer in a report entitled "Skin disease - a debate of the age". The APGS was formerly called the All Party Parliamentary Group on Skin.