News Archive—August 2023

Good medical practice 2024

Updated

Good medical practice has been updated. It sets out the standards of patient care and professional behaviour expected of all doctors in the UK, across all specialties, career stages and sectors. These standards will also apply to physician... Read more

30 Aug 2023

NIHR-BHF Cardiovascular Partnership Aortic Stenosis Discovery Science Survey

NIHR-BHF Cardiovascular Partnership Aortic Stenosis Discovery Science Survey We are collecting interest about current basic / discovery science research in the UK on aortic stenosis on behalf of the Aortic Stenosis Discovery Science theme of... Read more

30 Aug 2023

The SCTS Annual Meeting 2022 Abstracts have now been published in the Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

The SCTS Annual Meeting 2022 Abstracts have now been published in the Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Please click here to view Read more

30 Aug 2023

Expert consensus recommendations for the provision of infective endocarditis services:

Updated guidance from the Joint British Societies

BSAC IE guideline Read more

30 Aug 2023

NICE has published their final guidance document on 'Aortic valve reconstruction with glutaraldehyde-treated autologous pericardium'

Ozaki procedure

NICE has published their final guidance document on 'Aortic valve reconstruction with glutaraldehyde-treated autologous pericardium', better known in recent times amongst surgeons as the Ozaki procedure. The main recommendation is that the... Read more

30 Aug 2023