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News Archive 13/12/05 Managing chronic heart failure: learning from best practice Royal College of Physicians Document is published. 13/12/05 Cardiovascular Diseases Library (NELH) link put in to the links pages under other organisations. Cardiovascular diseases Specialist Library (CVDSL) Bulletin
22/11/05 The long awaited HCS career pathway has been launched – the official documentation is available at the following address:-
28/10/05 Heart Failure meeting The Royal College of Physicians is running a one-day conference on 'Heart Failure Update - Drugs, Devices and Delivery of Care' on Wednesday 8 February 2006, which is joint with the British Society for Heart Failure. Please find below further details of the event including a link to the Royal College of Physicians webpage from where you can get access to the programme and application form for the conference. Name: Heart
Failure Update - drugs, devices and delivery of care 19/8/05 New Version of Student log book available. This latest version of the
Record of Clinical Practice incorporates corrections and minor modifications to
previous editions. In particular, Please go to reference docs
pages from the SCST home page. 11/7/05 Healthcare Science and Allied Healthcare professionals award scheme. Application and information from this link. Press release from this link. 7/7/05 Information on the Autumn Meeting now on website. Go to links from home page. Or use this link. 24/4/05 Do you know of anyone or yourself was employed in the 1950s or early 1960s in the hospital system please go to this link. 1950s hospital. 12/4/05 New 12 lead ECG Guidelines put on to website. Find them from Reference Document & Guidelines page. Also article and form for Professional Indemnity which has come to SCST from IPS. Find this on Professional Indemnity page. 6/4/05 Cardiac Ball ticket form now on the website. Go to Cardiac Ball 2005 pages from main menu. 1/4/05 The European Society of Cardiology has published a first set of guidelines designed to give practically orientated recommendations to clinicians about when to perform PCI. Click here for link 16/3/05 Final programme for Cardiac 2005 SCST day published on the website 9/3/05 New NSF Chapter in arrhythmias published. 6/3/05 Dr Roger Boyle's report in to 5 years of the CHD NSF. Link here 10/1/05 Have a look at the Health Industries Task Force report - a collaboration between Industry and Government. Some may find the information interesting. Go to report 10/1/05 NICE is out to consultation on Radio Frequency Ablations. Go to www.nice.org.uk 5/1/05 Want to find out about the latest heart assisting pump implanted in the UK. See article on BCS home page and find the link to the company on our company links page. 4/1/05 Ever wondered who was it that named the condition. Look for who named it on the organisation link page. 22/11/04 New notice to students in their first and second year about ECG recording. Click here 18/11/04 Guidance agreed between the Department of Health and the Registration Council for Clinical Physiology (RCCP) to address approved qualification issues around regulation for individuals training in the disciplines of audiology, cardiology, gastrointestinal physiology. Click here 01/11/04 News from HPC/RCCP application for State Registration. Click here 18/10/04 News and programme for the Scottish Branch AGM and Autumn Meeting. See Scottish Branch under Regional Groups. 07/10/04 Follow this link for the latest news on State Registration. Click here 22/9/04 Winter meeting programme now available from Winter meeting 2004 link. 15/9/04 Job profiles to be used in the Agenda for Change programme are still to be agreed for cardiographer (ATO) and similar staffs. As can be seen by the profiles published in the September issue of SCST UPDATE they are written in a generic style to suite a range of staff groups in Healthcare Science - almost certainly, the same will be the case for cardiographers. As soon as they are available they will be published.
Trainees in clinical physiology are also in need of agreed published profiles. Again, work is still in progress. 14/9/04 Note that initial details of the winter meeting on 20th November at Manchester Airport are now available from Winter meeting 2004 link from the home page 11/8/04 Agenda for change job profiles published on DoH website. Go to here for pdf document. Please also check with DoH website in case of updates. 4/8/04 Please note that the examination application form is now available on the website for ASCST Part 1, Certificate and Proficiency for sitting in November 2004. Go to Education pages from the home page or from here. 13/7/04 ASCST Parts 1 & 2. These are continuing in to the future as separate examinations for those wishing to take them. They are also undertaken by Clinical Physiology undergraduates as part of their degree. 1/7/04 Please note that the e-mail system to our administrative offices is down as of 30 June and will not be fixed before Monday 5th July. 15/6/04 Changes to ASCST Pt 2 effective this September 2004. Please go to this link. 8/6/04 ASCST Part 2 Exam application form is now on the Education page of this website. Should your browser not show the new link, please click on refresh. 2/6/04 New information for use by Members. There are three new items in the members' area relating to the Chief Scientific Officer's newsletter, healthcare scientist of the year, and CSO's 1st conference. Go to members' area. Only paid up voting members can access this part of the website. 14/5/04 State Registration is progressing well. Further details on its introduction will be available at Cardiac 2004. As of today this will happen in 231 days. Full implementation of State Registration is on track to happen in 2005. 14/4/04 The April edition of Update is held up in a postal strike in Oxford. SCST apologise for the non delivery of Update but until the postal dispute ends deliveries of Update are delayed. 2/4/04 More about Cardiac 2004. New educational session on the Monday afternoon. Free to members. Read about it from Cardiac 2004 pages. More details to come about registration if needed for the afternoon. 13/3/04 Members area. This area is now open. Please go to Members area page to find all instructions as to how to access documents that are placed there. 13/2/04 Examination Application Form this is now available as a pdf file from the Education section of this website. 26/1/2004 ASCST Syllabi: Please note that the syllabi will not be revised for the 2004 examinations. The 2000 syllabi are now available on the website and will be used for 2004 examinations. 20/1/04 Examination Timetable This has now been published on this website. Go to the education pages from the home page. Note when the application forms are published and the closing dates. These closing dates will be strictly adhered to. (see 15/12/03 below) 19/1/04 Cardiac Ball Information - All information about the Cardiac Ball 2004 is now on this website. Ticket bookings are now being taken. 15/12/03 Examination Admissions At the Education Committee meeting held Friday 12th December it was decided that all applications for the SCST examinations must be received by the SCST Office on or before the closing date. This rule will in future be strictly adhered to, in line with many other professional bodies. It is the responsibility of individuals taking the examinations to ensure their forms and fees are received by the SCST Office on or before the closing date. Any late applications will be returned. The full text of this policy can be viewed from this link 4/11/03 HPC Bid accepted. Read the letter from Anne Burge, Chair of RCCP, about latest development on state registration. Click here to read the letter. 1/11/03 Scottish Meeting November 22, Glasgow. Please click here to get details 10/10/03 There is starting to be news of Cardiac 2004. Go to the links from the home page. The application form to attend the meeting is now up and available. The date for closure of early registration is on or before 1 March 2004. 24/9/03 The links page has been redesigned and is now split up into sections. If you are aware of any hospitals, universities, organisations or companies relevant to Cardiology not listed please let the webmaster know. 8/7/03 The SCST website has moved servers. There is a possibility that some pages may have got missed or older ones being shown. Should you notice any such problems please let the Webmaster know. Thanks. 3/6/03 University of Leeds Clinical Physiology degree is published on University website. Follow this link. This course is a full time University course over 4 years and will qualify students to work in Cardiology as a Clinical Physiologist on completion. University course fees are paid for by the NHS and a means tested bursary is available to the students. For more details contact Dr P Marshall at Leeds University School of Healthcare Studies p.marshall@leeds.ac.uk or any Head of Department of Cardiology in West/North Yorkshire or North Lincolnshire 2/6/2003 Message from the Education committee, please note that the June exam results will be delayed by a week or so. Exact details of when the results will be available will be noted on this website. 19/4/03 For those taking ASCST Pt 1 & 2 this year a series of mock questions are available from the exams page. Or go to it from this link for pt1 or from this link for pt2 18/4/03 Article from Catriona MacGregor, Chairman published in Cardiology News is reproduced here. Follow this link. 8/4/03 Latest information from the BCS about the forthcoming Cardiac 2003 meeting in Glasgow. Below is the text of the e-mail received by the Society about registration at the meeting. Members who want to register at the BCS Conference in Glasgow must bring with them proof of membership. The registration fee for members with proof of affiliate group membership will be £100. The fee will be £150 for affiliated group members without proof of membership and non-members who are in the following categories: doctors in training, physiotherapists, radiographers, basic scientists, dieticians, nurses, technicians and students. To qualify for this category, affiliated group non-members will have to have confirmation of entitlement from their head of department. The fee is £300 for non-members who are not in the above categories. If affiliated group members give us proof of membership after they have registered, BCS will refund £50 to them after the conference. 13/3/03 RCCP have updated the website. Register is now dated 10 March 2003 8/3/03 New ETT guidelines published by BCS. To access these guidelines either go to the Reference Documents page from SCST home page or find the document on the BCS website. It is in Adobe Acrobat format and was published by the BCS at the beginning of March. 7/3/03 Yorks Chief Cardiac Physiologist group announces another advanced ECG course. Go to the Yorkshire group's webpage from the Regional groups page on this site. 5/2/03
Plenty of updated news about Cardiac 2003 both the
scientific sessions and the "Cardiac Ball". Go
to the Cardiac 2003, Cardiac Ball 2003 and Scientific
Meetings pages. Check out the BCS registration form with
changes to the charging process this year. Also only
dinner tickets can be ordered up front this year. Dance
only tickets will be available form SCST stand in
Glasgow. 5/2/03 Note: new area of website which can be devoted to Regional Groups - not just branches of Society. Do you run a "Regional Chief's Group" or similar. Want to put contact details and other information together. SCST will be pleased to host some pages for each group. Contact webmaster for information. 15/1/03 Details of course run by Yorkshire Chief's group for ATOs and Student CCSOs please click on this link. 19/11/02 Details of the dates for the next two year's Cardiac meetings published on BCS website. Dates are: 2004 Manchester. Monday, May 24 - Thursday, May 27 2005 Manchester. Monday, May 23 - Thursday, May 26 16/10/02 The long awaited 5th report into cardiac services has now been published. Available from bcs.com or read November's Heart. 9/10/02 Scientific meeting in Glasgow on April 29th - details will be forthcoming later in 2002. BCS meeting is Monday 28th - Thursday 1st May 2003 Cardiac Ball 2003 - changes are likely to occur for this function on the night of the 29th April details on the Cardiac Ball 2003 page 13/9/02 Interested in becoming an examiner for the Society? You must already be a paid up member of the Society. Application form can be found from this link. If you are already an existing examiner but your personal details have changed. Please go to the page in the Education section of the website 5/9/02 RCCP The voluntary register is now available for viewing on www.rccp.co.uk 29/7/02: Any member wishing to become a co-opted member of Council should in the first place contact the Chairman or Secretary, contact details on the Council page. What is required are colleagues in UK Cardiology who have a commitment to improving the education, training and professional standing of colleagues. Items are required for inclusion in Update. These should be of interest to colleagues in the field of technical cardiology / clinical cardiac physiology or related subjects. The articles should be original and as healthcare scientist this will comprise of unique work as part of your normal duties. Any such items will count towards your CPD points. Any groups of members wishing to set up a local/regional grouping of colleagues as a subgroup of SCST are welcome to do so. Firstly please contact the Secretary to ensure the matters relating to your proposed group are arranged. 9/9/02 Healthcare Scientist Awareness Week 23 - 29 September 2002 An initiative from the Recruitment and Retention Unit in the HR section of the Dept of Health aimed particularly at Recruitment by raising awareness of the role of the Healthcare Scientist. The Department of Health will be running an advertisement and/or editorial in "New Scientist" during that week and are asking that people also promote the initiative widely locally. They are also asking for any Healthcare Scientist testimonials (people willing to put themselves forward to talk about the profession) for the ongoing promotion of Healthcare Science careers and Return to Practice. An information 'pack' has been produced and can be viewed/downloaded via this link. Also included in the pack is a "Careers Connections" contact list. 28/6/02. Error on RCCP E-Form It has been brought to RCCP attention that there is a minor omission on the electronic forms that have been available on the RCCP website ( www.RCCP.co.uk). On page 5 there was no designated space for you to sign the declaration, it was only indicated that you should print your name. The declaration does need to be signed so please make sure that you sign page 5 before submission. This has now been amended on the copies that can be downloaded from the website now. 30/5/02. BCS 2001 ETT
Guidelines. These are now available from the BCS
website. Go to Members only tab, Resources, Guidelines. 23/5/02
After some comments from colleagues about the ETT
guidelines it has been noted that these are now missing
from the BCS website. I will endeavour to sort this out
for colleagues as soon as possible and any change will be
notified here. 16/5/02 RCCP website now available, please use the links page to access it. 15/5/02 British Cardiac Society launches new website on www.bcs.com 9/5/02 Cardiac 2002. The SCST would like to welcome visitors to our stand number 214 at the exhibition. Also please note that ticket sales for the Cardiac Ball 2002 are now closed. Any spare tickets may be available at Harrogate from our stand until sold out. 5/5/02 Stolen Ultrasound equipment. Note that at least 4 UK hospitals have had items of ultrasound equipment stolen recently including Toshiba probes and Sonosite equipment. Any irregular offerings of equipment should be treated cautiously. Details of the items can be obtained from Paul Mount of MIUS Ltd on 01452 312233 or if you know of any other thefts please let him know. 2/5/02
Latest news on tickets for the Cardiac Ball 2002.
Dance only tickets need to purchased by Thursday 9th May or on a first come first served basis at Harrogate. For more details see item lower down the page. 18/4/02: To all visitors, you may have been experiencing problems with this site over the past month. Unfortunately hackers got into the server and managed to do significant damage. Hopefully all is now resolved. The Society wishes to apologise to our visitors for this inconvenience. 15/3/2002: Cardiac 2002, Please note that the registration form to attend the meeting in Harrogate is now available to be downloaded from this site. It will also be delivered with your next copy of SCST Update. Download or print pdf file from here 28/2/2002 SCST @ Cardiac 2002 Harrogate. Details regarding the scientific meeting programme are on the website on the Scientific Meeting page. Registration details for the meeting will be included in your edition of SCST Update. Details of the Cardiac Ball 2002 are now on this website. Please click on this link. As was the case last year sponsorship has enabled us to have top class entertainment, more details on the information page from the link. If you are travelling by air to Leeds/Bradford airport note there is no direct public transport to Harrogate from the airport. Either taxi it to Harrogate (12mls approx) or taxi to Horsforth Station and train (every half hour) to Harrogate. Or if need to get the airport bus back to Leeds and then train from there. If you
require accommodation in Harrogate this can be organised
through Expotel the BCS appointed agents on www.expotel.com and clicking on
Exhibitions and then British Cardiac Society. The SCST
does not have any different arrangements. Accomodation
is now difficult in the Harrogate area. Have you thought
that a mobile home or lodge hired for the period of the
meeting may be an idea? Rudding Park is only 3 miles from
the town and has high quality holiday accommodation.
Contact 01423 870439 or www.ruddingpark.com 29/1/2002 New ETT guidelines published. These are now on the BCS website on the BCS publications page. (23/5/2002 - Have just checked the new BCS site and these guidelines do not appear - it will be taken up with the BCS as soon as possible - Webmaster) Anybody working in clinical cardiac technology who may wish to join the Society but for personal reasons may not wish/be able to take the exams may consider applying for an APEL system. Details were out in February in Update and will cost £175. Details of the scheme are also published on the Membership page of the website. Any member interested in becoming an examiner for the SCST exams, especially for ASCST Part I please let the Secretary know, her address is on the Education page. Personal portfolios will be available to be purchased at the BCS meeting in Harrogate at a cost of £5.00. The previous free introductory offer is now closed. ASCST syllabi are now available in Adobe Acrobat format from the reference page. 16/1/02 Note that on the Membership page links have been made to download membership and membership renewal forms in Adobe Acrobat V5 format. These can then be posted back to the Registrar. At present it is not possible to register on-line. 8/1/02 Link put back to NHS Careers. They have revised their information about Cardiac Physiologists. 11/12/01 The link to the explanations for RCCP has been put back from the old news page. The Webmaster hopes that this may help colleagues. 4/12/01 Members may wish to view the BCS site and see the Peer Review Scheme/Clinical Governance Review presented there. The SCST, as an affiliated group, has representation on the Peer Review Committee. Any comments regarding this should be made to the Secretary of SCST Council. 5/7/01: Middlesex and Surrey Chief/Senior Chief Group third meeting to be held on 31st July 2001 at Harefield Hospital. RSVP to
R.S.Hirst, Harefield Hospital 21/6/01: Further links put into links page. 15/6/01: Report of the 100th Reynolds Pathfinder course held recently, including photographs of 1st and 100th course participants. Click here 6/4/01: Clinical
Physiology voluntary registration forms for Cardiology. 5/4/01: Colleagues may be aware that ARTP is issuing Clinical Physiology Voluntary Registration forms. Details of SCST forms will be available soon and information will be published here on Friday 6/4/01. 15/3/01 Updated home page giving direct links to situations vacant page. Also a full copy of our Memorandum and Articles of Association 2/3/01 Full details of the meeting in Manchester in May are published in SCST Update including scientific meeting programme, hotel accommodation details, social function and registration form for free entrance to members. 6/2/01 Middlesex and Surrey Chief/Senior Chief Group inaugural meeting to be held on 27th February 2001. Contact C O'Brian, St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey. 26/1/2001
Click HERE to go to the
article published in SCST Update on Clinical Physiology
Worshops summary. Author Sue Hill. 1/11/00 New link on links page for the Leeds Teaching Hospitals. If your hospital has an Internet page please let me know at graham.tate@leedsth.nhs.uk Plus:- don't forget the ETT guidelines are all reproduced on this website in the reference section. New additions to
the Website. 25/10/00. The paper produced by
Peter Macfarlane and Eric Coleman in SCST Update is
reproduced on the website in the reference section. This
important paper describes errors which can occur in ECG
interpretation when electrodes are placed incorrectly on
the limbs and torso. The next SCST Spring meeting will be at the British Cardiac Society meeting in Manchester on 21st to 24th of May 2001. Further details will be announced in SCST Update NICE reviews coronary stenting click here for link NSF News: Society Council is to meet with Dr Roger Boyle ("Heart Tzar") on July 28th to discuss the implications of the NSF on Technical Cardiology. National
Service Framework News on the preparation work for state registration click here If you are a member of the Society you will receive this in your copy of Update. |