The Society for Cardiological Science and Technology

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14/7/08 Letter from Department of Health Chief Scientific Officer. Go Here

14/6/08 New guidelines issued for Departments with Commercial Representatives in Clinical Practice. Go Here

18/4/08 Final programme for Cardiac 2008 now on website go to Cardiac 2008 page.

***** 10/4/08 Some members have realised that RCCP letters inviting reregistration have not arrived. To reregister if you have not been contacted go to www.rccp.co.uk and download the documents. You need to reregister by 21st April 2008. ***********

9/4/08 New details on posters, programme and ball on Cardiac 2008 pages.

14/3/08 New Consensus Guidelines for ETT published in reference documents.  Link from here.

13/3/08 Chief Scientific Officer’s 5th Annual Conference 2008, Tuesday 25th & Wednesday, 26th November 2008: Holiday Inn London Regent’s Park, Carburton Street, W1W 5EE

13/3/08 Northern Ireland Branch AGM 11th April 2008

26/2/08 SCST Code of Professional Conduct now on the website. Go to reference documents

5/02/08 Work Based Assessors study day 23/5/08. Go to form from this link

3/1/08 Statement on professional regulation by DoH http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_081189

16/12/07 Changes to membership following November 2007 SGM. Follow link here or go to membership pages

16/1207 Federation for Healthcare Science November 2007 statement on the role of Associate Practitioner go to link here

13/12/07 New SCST guidelines on brady pacing published

9/12/07 Scotland has published its action plan for healthcare scientists that should be of interest.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/11/26134656/0

9/12/07 New memorandum and articles of association now on the website after being accepted at November 2007 meeting.

8/8/07 Inland Revenue information for tax relief - also in SCST Update. Go to member's page.

7/8/07 4th Chief Scientific Officer's Conference go to meetings page Now with early bird registration extended to 23rd November.

7/8/07 Further new adverts for Lecturers and also Head of Department at City of Westminster College, London.

18/7/07 See what the DoH has published as "What is Physiological Measurement"

17/7/07 New advert for a Lecturer at City of Westminster College, London. Please see Situations Vacant page or look at the advert from this link.

21/6/07 Look at this link about the 18 week target.

http://www.18weeks.nhs.uk/cms/ArticleFiles/xv4u5y45d2q5v345nzgu2zet06092006135032/Files/Cardiology_goodpractice_200607.pdf

14/6/07 Royal College of Physicians is organising a flying, driving and cardiac disease conference on 9/10/07 and below is the link to our website where people can book on line. http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/event/details.aspx?e=677 View also from this link.

29/5/07 Important letter from Chief Scientific Officer regarding Registration. Please follow this link.

28/5/07 Fourth Annual Chief Scientific Officers Conference and Healthcare Scientist pf the Year Awards 27 & 28 November 2007,
Holiday Inn, Regent's Park, London . Follow this link for more details

20/5/07 City of Westminster College details on Foundation Degree in Clinical Physiology - details from this link

20/5/07 City of Westminster College details on Certificate in Electrocardiography course - details from this link

4/5/07 Cardiac Ball 2007 ticket form now on Cardiac 2007 page of this website.

23/4/07 Chief Scientist gives notice on Leaders for the Future – A Call to Senior Scientists meetings held on 1, 2, 3, 4 May 2007. Please go to meetings page of website.

23/02/07 The Royal College of Physicians is organising a one-day conference entitled 'Metabolic Syndrome: fatty livers and arteries' on Thursday 7 June 2007 at the college. Go to meetings page from the home page.

31/1/07 SCST New Fax number 0121 355 2420.

6/1/07 How's your Trust doing in the diagnostic waiting times? Go to http://www.performance.doh.gov.uk/diagnostics/index.htm and look it up.

3/1/07 The Royal College of Physicians is organising a one-day conference entitled 'MINAP: from national audit to research' on Tuesday 27 March 2007 at the college. This event may be of particular interest to members and therefore list details of the conference.

This event is CME accredited and further details of the conference are below.

Name:           MINAP: from national audit to research
Date:           Tuesday 27 March 2007
Venue:          Royal College of Physicians, London
Contact:        Conference coordinator, Tel: 020 7935 1174 ext. 252, email: conferences@rcplondon.ac.uk
URL:            http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/event/details.aspx?e=590

14/11/06 Chief Scientific Officer's Conference 27th November 2006. Click on this link.

27/9/06 HEALTHCARE SCIENCE ROADSHOW Please see the Flyer attached about our 'roadshows'.  please disseminate this in your area of work and encourage as many colleagues as possible to attend the events.  Flyer link here

25/8/06  Asia-Pacific Interventional Advances Conference, 30 November - 2 December 2006, Sydney Convention & Exhibition         Centre,  SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. For more details:- Please click here


24/8/06 Latest ‘logbook’ now on the documents page.  Fortunately no significant changes this time around, just some spelling corrections and a change in layout of the ECG report sheet from portrait to landscape.

 

Also note there is now the ECG report sheet as a separate file for those who want to download this – saves you accidentally printing out 200 sheets of log book each time you just want one of these!
 

5/8/06 12 lead ECG Guidelines updated and put on to website. Find them from Reference Document & Guidelines page.

16/7/06 Counting down to end of independent entry for ASCST exams - see this page.

16/7/06 Department of Health Press release about diagnostics waiting times. Available from this link

 

16/7/06 Details on 2006 awards scheme for Health Care Science available from this link

29/6/06 The World Congress of Cardiology 2006 will bring together the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2006 and the World Heart Federation's XVth World Congress of Cardiology. This joint meeting and exhibition, in state-of-the-art facilities, will provide high quality scientific content on the latest research in cardiology including prevention and is expected to attract well over 25,000 attendees. 

 
Do not wait until the last minute... if you have not done so, register now. As for accommodation, have a look at the official site (which is quickly filling up), and also see our alternative offers at http://www.barcelona-on-line.es/Marketing/cardio/eng.asp?idLink=257.  Please be aware, rooms in Barcelona are limited....people attending the 1999 conference will tell you it's a good idea to make your booking before it's too late!
 
We have put together a large range of accommodation to suit your needs covering individual hotel rooms, small and large group bookings and apartments if you want to bring the family.  
 
Simply following the links to view an example of these special packages, or if youŽd prefer to speak with a consultant for a larger range of options, just let me know by return email and I will call you.  You can  call me directly (+34 Spain) 93 343 79 93 . If IŽm unavailable, simply ask for Julie Joseph in the booking department.
 
See you in Barcelona!

21/5/06 Royal College of Physicians conference on Atrial Fibrillation. Please look at this link

10/5/06 ASCST Part 1 Examination application form, for those not on a degree programme, now available on application form page - from examinations in main menu. This will also be available in SCST Update.

9/3/06 ASCST Pt 2 Examination application now available on application form page - from examinations in main menu.

2/2/06 BCS launch guidelines page on their website. Go to useful documents in the resources part of bcs.com. SCST guidelines will also be published there.  BCS guidelines 

2/2/06 Special edition of Assembly Exchange to provide you with a briefing on the key workforce elements of the White Paper 'Our health, our care' our say, published 30/1/06. Click here for link to the document

23/1/06 BCS Early Bird registration for Cardiac 2006 is now open. Early bird registration closes 13th February! Click here for link to BCS page.

5-8th January 2006 Problems with the website it was down for a few days until a technical issue was resolved.

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