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29-Sept-11 |
The Cardiac Clinical Physiology Meeting at the Irish Cardiac Society will be
held on Friday October 7th in the Slieve Donard Hotel, Newcastle, Co Down.
Run in association and with the support of the Irish Cardiac Society, this
is the main meeting for Cardiac Physiologists in the country.
This years program, the full details of which will be released shortly will
include talks on
* The Leadless ICD
* New Approaches to Chronotropic Incompetence
* Brugada Syndrome
* Optical Coherence Tomography - a new method of coronary artery imaging
* The Virtual Cath Lab - a new training method
As in previous years there is an award for the best Research or Case Study
submission from a Cardiac Physiologist or student in the field at the Irish
Cardiac Society. To enter simply send an abstract of 300 words with any
relevant images or videos to editor@isct.ie
As was the case last year, you wont have to make any presentation yourself
(although you are more than welcome to) so get those entries in.
ISCT Programme 2011
& ISCT
Education Bursary. |
| 29-Jan-11 |
The Programme of the Advanced Echo Education day to be held on the 26th
March 2011. Click
here for the full programme. |
| 2-Dec-10 |
Calendar updated with Information on the NI Cardiac Network meetings for
December (Basic EP) and March (Advanced Echo). 
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| 17-Nov-10 |
SCST NI Scientific meeting date set for the 1st April 2011. More dates to
follow.
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| 25-July-10 |
RCCP Campaign Activity
Registrants Survey June 2010
In
February 2010 the Department of Health published Modernising Scientific
Careers (MSC) – the UK Way Forward. It seeks to redefine education and
career pathways for the wider healthcare science workforce. In April 2010,
the Department also published Modernising Scientific Careers – an England
Action Plan, which sets out how the programme will be implemented across
England. Similar implementation plans will be published in Scotland, Wales
and Northern Ireland in the coming weeks and months.
MSC establishes that the statutory regulation of clinical physiologists will
happen as part of the regulation of the wider healthcare science workforce.
Given the potential of the MSC to significantly delay statutory regulation
for clinical physiologists, it is important that registrants carefully
consider how they wish the RCCP to proceed with its campaign for regulation.
To ensure the RCCP has a clear understanding of the needs and thoughts of
registrants, we would be very grateful if you could complete a short on-line
questionnaire.
If you are unable to access the on-line version, you can download a hardcopy
version from the RCCP website:
www.rccp.co.uk
under newsletters.
The deadline for completion is 30 July 2010.
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| 3-Mar-10 |
Statement
on the withdrawal from the Irish Cardiac Society Conference
The Society for
Cardiological Science and Technology – Northern Ireland (SCST-NI) committee
has discussed the requirements for the organisation of the cardiac
physiologist day at the Irish Cardiac Society (ICS) conference at some
length. Its takes a great deal of time and energy to organise the cardiac
physiology component of the ICS conference. However, in recent years, there
has been a steady decline in the numbers of cardiac physiologists from
Northern Ireland (SCST-NI) in attendance, and the current working climate in
Northern Ireland is not conducive to increasing attendance in the near
future. Unfortunately, the funding requirements for the conference have
recently increased to a point that is prohibitive for SCST-NI.
Hence, it is with regret
that I wish to inform the membership that SCST-NI is unable to support the
organisation of the cardiac physiology day at the Irish Cardiac Society
conferences in October 2010. Instead, it is our intention to extend the
spring meeting, which is more accessible for our membership.
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| 21-Oct-09 |
Graduate Certificate in Adult Cardiac Catheter Laboratory Practice flyer has
been released for the 2009/10 intake. Please
click here for the flyer and more
details.
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| 3-May-09 |
Imaging meeting to be held at Queens Great hall on 7th May 09 starting at
6:30, based on 3 presentations. Click
here for poster.
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| 20-Jan-09 |
SCSTNI will be hosting its
2nd
auscultation course, on the 3rd March 2009 at Antrim Area
Hospital. Places are limited to 12 places with the closing date for
applications to be received by 1st March.
Applications to
secretary@scstni.org.uk
The course will start at 4:30pm and cost £15.00 per person.
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| 16-Jan-09 |
A working group will be established in Northern Ireland which will consider
what best suits the needs of the scientific workforce while taking into
account the views of the workforce and health service. A listening event
was held last August to provide an overview. Due to the lack of Clinical
Physiologists in attendance a further listening event was requested and will
be held on 10th February in Belfast.
For confirmation of attendance please email;
wpu@dhsspsni.gov.uk
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| 5-Jan-09 |
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SCSTNI will be hosting an
auscultation course, on the 27th January 2009 at Antrim Area
Hospital. Places are limited to 12 places with the closing date for
applications to be received by 20th January.
Applications to
secretary@scstni.org.uk
The course will start at 4:30pm and cost £15.00 per person.
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| 14-August-08 |
The SCST NI committee has agreed to sponsor 3 standard members and a
committee member towards the ICS meeting in Galway to a maximum sum of £200.
The sponsorship form can be found under the documents section.
Please ensure you read the terms and conditions and fill out the relevant
sections.
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| 13-August-08 |
Details for the 2008 Irish Cardiac Society meeting can be found on the ICS/BCS
page. With details on the agenda, a call for posters and several possible
hotels available for visitors.
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| 19-July-08 |
An article was published on behalf of the SCST NI Committee on the
Scientific meeting held in the Clandeboye Hotel, 2008. This meeting was
based on the ECG with the key note speaker being Prof. McFarlane from
Glasgow.
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| 19-June-08 |
Many thanks to Alan Caulfield for passing this very exciting article onto
us. Found in the British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, June 2008 Vol 3 No 6.
It shows that support for state registration is growing for different
sectors as all begin to accept the role and need of Cardiac Physiologists.
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| 11-June-08 |
The 1st meeting of the 2008/09 committee was held in Craigavon on 11-June-08
where the office bearers were elected. The results are as follows; |
| Chairperson: Noel Black Vice-Chair: Brian Campbell
ICS Coordinator: Anne-Marie Magee |
Treasurer: Barbara McDonald Secretary: Cathy Ross
Web-site Manager: Gareth Clifford |
| A big thank you to Gwyneth McClintock who is stepping down as Chairperson
and to Stephen Gordon who steps down as Secretary. Two positions which are
both time consuming and a lot of hard work.
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| 2-May-08 |
Mrs. V. Anderson has written an open letter to Mr McGimpsey as the Chair of
the Northern Ireland Regional Training Group. Once again the call has gone
out to all Cardiac Physiologists to write to their MP's to further promote
the continuing difficulties with State Registration and the constant delays
which has brought this about.
Please see the
documents section to obtain a copy
of this letter and to use it as a template if you so wish to when writing to
your MP. You will also find within the documents section the article
published in the SCST magazine which discussed the problem of State
Registration and it's ideas when writing to your MP.
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| 2-April-08 |
Any ATO who wishes to attend the SCSTNI meting on the 11th April 2008 will
be welcome as a guest of the SCSTNI Committee.
Those wishing to attend should contact Barbara McDonald, Antrim Area
Hospital to register their interest by Monday 7th April 2008. This will
allow for catering considerations on the night.
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| 29-Feb-08 |
The Agenda and registration form for the SCSTNI meeting and AGM was released
today and can be found in the AGM section of the website.
Please note that to register for the members price you must have been a
member for the 2007/08 year or be registered before 1st April 2008.
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| 12-Feb-08 |
An open letter was written to all Cardiac Physiologists on the 1 year
anniversary of the web-site outlining the new features open to Cardiac
Physiologists. Also to launch the new members section which includes a forum
and will also be expanded to include educational sections for students and
student WBA's.
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| 11-Feb-08 |
As with each year three members of the committee stand for re-election. If
you there are any other nominations for the members of the committee please
submit the form from the documents section.
Renewals for the SCST NI Branch are now open and should be sent to
Barbara McDonald, Antrim Area Hospital before 1st April 2008.
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| 30-Dec-07 |
Please note that the registration date for members of the SCST N. Ireland
branch has been moved from 1st Jan to 1st April 2008 to allow for
administration checks.
It is still a requirement of all members who are joining the N. Ireland
branch to also be fully paid members of the SCST Main branch. The
application to join or renew membership with the N. Ireland branch will only
be accepted once you are a member of the SCST Main branch.
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| 14-Dec-07 |
New look SCSTNI interactive calendar launched. To add events relevant to the
Cardiac Physiologist in Northern Ireland into the calendar please Email:
events@scstni.org.uk
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