regulations had impacted the ability to deliver stress echocardiography in the NHS. Methods The ‘Impact of COVID-19 on UK Stress Echocardiography Services’ survey was sent to the research teams from the 31 NHS hospitals participating in the EVAREST
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Impact of COVID-19 on UK stress echocardiography practice: insights from the EVAREST sites
Cameron Dockerill, William Woodward, Annabelle McCourt, Cristiana Monteiro, Elena Benedetto, Maria Paton, David Oxborough, Shaun Robinson, Keith Pearce, Mark J Monaghan, Daniel X Augustine, and Paul Leeson
Paired surveys for patients and physiologists in echocardiography: a single-centre experience
Michael Roshen, Sophia John, Selda Ahmet, Rajiv Amersey, Sandy Gupta, and George Collins
, patient surveys are important because acting on feedback can improve their experience. The 2016 British Society of Echocardiography’s (BSE) Echocardiography Quality Framework recommends patient satisfaction questionnaires in all TTE departments so that we
Transoesophageal echocardiography before DC cardioversion: a survey of clinical practice in the UK
Nikhil Ahluwalia, Sanjeev Bhattacharyya, Christopher Munns, and John Chambers
. The aim of this survey was to determine the approaches to performing TOE pre-cardioversion within the UK. Methods Identification of echocardiography departments A list of all NHS hospitals was obtained from the NHS website ( www
UK Cardiology Training in Core Echocardiography Symposium Report: the good the bad and the ugly
Anna Kydd, Afzal Sohaib, Rizwan Sarwar, David Holdsworth, and Bushra Rana
Introduction Last year, the GMC and British Junior Cardiologists' Association (BJCA) national surveys ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) highlighted major failings in training in echocardiography. Concerned by this, the Specialist Advisory Committee (SAC) approached
Does stress echocardiography still have a role in the rapid access chest pain clinic post NICE CG95?
Victoria Pettemerides, Thomas Turner, Conor Steele, and Anita Macnab
% national increase in CTCA delivery and the BSCI acknowledged that alternative methods of assessment such as stress echocardiography would need to be utilised for some years to come. A recent survey of UK consultant cardiologists found that only a quarter
EDUCATIONAL SERIES ON THE SPECIALIST VALVE CLINIC: Challenges in the diagnosis and management of valve disease: the case for the specialist valve clinic
David Messika-Zeitoun, Ian G Burwash, and Thierry Mesana
epidemiological data and surveys clearly show that these conditions are not being met and a significant proportion of patients with VHD are receiving unsatisfactory management and a resultant adverse prognosis with an increased risk of mortality and morbidity. In
The Echocardiography Quality Framework: a comprehensive, patient-centered approach to quality assurance and continuous service improvement
Navroz Masani
departments can be proud of their record of training physiologists and cardiologists to achieve BSE Accreditation, feedback from trainees (e.g. the General Medical Council Cardiology Trainee survey) reveals an inconsistent, informal approach that could be
A patient-centred model to quality assure outputs from an echocardiography department: consensus guidance from the British Society of Echocardiography
Thomas E Ingram, Steph Baker, Jane Allen, Sarah Ritzmann, Nina Bual, Laura Duffy, Chris Ellis, Karina Bunting, Noel Black, Marcus Peck, Sandeep S Hothi, Vishal Sharma, Keith Pearce, Richard P Steeds, Navroz Masani, and the British Society of Echocardiography Clinical Standards and Departmental Accreditation Committees
service user survey and an action plan within a 3-year cycle Green: Two-yearly rolling programme 4B Patients and carers Amber: One customer satisfaction survey and an action plan within a 3-year cycle Green: Two-yearly rolling programme
Communicating echocardiography results to patients: a future role for the clinical scientist?
Jenna Smith, Sarah Waters, Brian Campbell, and John Chambers
role of clinical scientist, and also that a scientist is not clinically trained. Interestingly, in our survey we found that 90% of patients interviewed were not aware of the clinical scientist profession, and thought that the clinical scientist was a
EDUCATIONAL SERIES ON THE SPECIALIST VALVE CLINIC: How to run a specialist valve clinic: the history, examination and exercise test
John B Chambers
with severe aortic stenosis. Data from ( 25 , 26 ). In the EuroHeart survey ( 27 ), only 6% of patients with aortic stenosis in whom it was indicated actually received a test. This may be because of logistic difficulties. In our valve clinic
