Speaking at: HRC2025

Position: Acting Consultant
Location: Kent, UK

Dr Rebecca Jayasinghe is an acting consultant in Geriatric and General Internal Medicine at Darent Valley Hospital, Kent. She graduated from King’s College London in 2011 and undertook her specialty training in Kent, Surrey and Sussex. She has a special interest in cardiovascular medicine in older people, and has experience of delivering a cardiogeriatrics liaison service for cardiology patients with frailty, complex comorbidity and palliative care needs. As a committee member of the British Geriatrics Society Cardiovascular special interest group, she regularly advocates for older people across national platforms including the British Heart Failure Society 25in25 policy collaboration and NICE. She enjoys teaching, having developed a number of simulation programmes, produced online educational material for the BGS and co-delivers an annual cardiogeriatrics conference.