Helen Munday Matron, Royal Papworth Hospital hmunday@nhs.net SCTS Board of Representatives Annual Meeting 28th September 2018 SCTS Nursing & AHP Representative Helen Munday Matron, Royal Papworth Hospital hmunday@nhs.net

Nursing & AHP Representative Professional Standards SCTS Nursing & AHP Team Nursing & AHP Representative Helen Munday Cardiac Thoracic Amanda Walthew Congenital Karen Byrne Professional Link Tara Bartley Patient Link Chrissie Bannister Professional Standards Education Bhuvana Krishnamoorthy Research Julie Sanders Melissa Rochon Clinical Audit Group Meeting Committee (CT Forum) Vacant Website Julie Quigley

Associate membership *includes ACSA and SCP members 2013 8 2014 2 2015 19 2016 17 2017 30 2018 (as of March 2018) 58 Total to date *156 (+ 23 in process)

Education portfolio SCTS core principles; cardiothoracic band 5/6 course ran in Brighton in Nov 2017 and the Abbott Centre, Solihull in March 2018 New Non-medical prescribing in cardiothoracic surgery in May 2018 at James Cook Hospital SCTS Advanced Cardiothoracic Course in May 2018 at the Abbott Centre, Solihull

Education portfolio SCP revision course (Sept 2017) in Manchester SCTS SCP Surgical Skills in Cardiothoracic surgery held in April 2018 at the University of Manchester Surgical Simulation centre. Joint Abbott & SCTS theatre course held in August 2018

Further courses planned for 2018/9 Non medical prescribing in cardiothoracic care – 10th November 2018 Surgical skills on 15th January and 25th June 2019 SCP revision course – date TBC Developing an Advanced AHP Practitioner service – subject to demand

SCP training Recommendation from DoH, supported by SCTS – MSc structured programme Ongoing competency assessment Cardiothoracic clinical exit exam run by Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Research Launch of Nursing & AHP Research Group (NARG) Julie.sanders@bartshealth.nhs.uk Director Clinical research, Quality and Innovation, Barts Health. Professor of Cardiovascular Nursing QMUL

Research SCTS Cardiothoracic Interdisciplinary Research Network (CIRN) (first project is related to surgical site infections) SCTS National Research Meeting – 3rd November 2018 at Glenfield Hospital

SCTS Ionescu Nursing & AHP Annual Travel Fellowship Associate members of SCTS Working in CT specialty Presentation at annual meeting Advert for 2019/20 award due soon

Patient Links BUPA Heart Valve Voice www.heartvalvevoice.com Aortic Dissection Awareness UK – www.thinkaorta.org

Networking opportunities CT Forum at the Annual Meeting NCBC EACTS Turkish Cardiovascular Society Congenital Cardiac Nurses Association

CT unit representatives Nurses and Allied Health Professionals What do associate members want for their membership? “……. structure the Society to allow for as many members as possible to be able to contribute” Richard Page SCTS President

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