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8th April 2025
BCIS are pleased to announce that the BCIS Position Statement on Mitral edge-to-edge repair is now available via the ICR3 website and to download as a PDF using the link below. This document is supportive of expansion of services in the UK and embraces a breadth of approach.
25th February 2025
BCIS are pleased to announce that the new PCI guidelines have now been published in ICR3 and can be accessed using the following link: PCI in the UK: Recommendations of the BCIS | ICR Journal. A great deal of work, involving many cardiologists, has gone into producing this document. We hope these updated guidelines will be a useful reference for hospitals across the country. PCI in the UK has been one of the success stories of the NHS and we hope these updated guidelines provide an updated framework for safe and effective coronary intervention.
Best Wishes,
Gerald Clesham, Hon Sec
24th January 2025
The introduction of Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI) has seen a significant growth in the out of hours workload for interventional cardiologists. Very few medical specialties require the immediate return of senior medical staff to hospital on a 24/7 basis, where they are required to perform complex procedures in often very sick patients. This pattern of work is very disruptive to family life and involves regular sleep disturbance. Interventional cardiology risks becoming an unpopular specialty.
There is a perception that the time has come for a review of the working arrangements for consultant interventional cardiologists in the UK. The purpose of this document is to review the traditional arrangements and outline other options that are available under the current NHS consultant contract.
24th April 2020
Dear BCIS Colleague,
Prof Divaka Perera & his colleagues have produced a very neat summary of the most recent literature about COVID and the heart. It covers myocardial injury, ACEI/ARB, STEMI outcomes amongst other things.
Click the download button at the bottom of the page to view.
I hope that you find it interesting and helpful?
Very best wishes,
Nick Curzen, BCIS President