Tele-Cardiology: Bringing cardiology closer to the patient

The aim of this day is to provide an insight into what telemedicine can make available to assist in the diagnosis and ongoing care of cardiac patients. Our ten speakers will share their experiences of the provision of
* Specialist care to children and pregnant women,
* How ECGs taken in the community are being diagnosed in hospitals and in call centres
* How patients can undertake their own ECGs when intermittent symptoms arise and their views about this
* On-going care in the community for patients in heart failure

Who should attend?
This meeting is aimed at all staff working in Cardiology Units, General Practice and the community who wish to find out more about what telemedicine can offer. It will be of equal interest to managers, budget holders and all clinical staff

Registration Details:
Fellow: £80
Associate: £60
Trainee - Fellow: £60
Student Members: £30
Non-Fellow: £140
Trainee - Non-Fellow: £90
Student: £40
Allied Health Professional: £100

Meeting ref: TE-G10-2

CPD (Applied for): 4 credits

Agenda

9.00 am Registration with coffee

9.30 am Opening address

Dr Eileen Brebner, President, Telemedicine and eHealth Section, Royal Society of Medicine

9.40 am Videoconferencing in a tertiary referral centre; current practice and future goals

Dr Michael Rigby, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist , Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust

10.00 am Telemedicine in foetal cardiology: prerequisites, pitfalls and prospects

Dr Helena Gardiner, Director & Senior Lecturer in Perinatal Cardiology, Imperial College at Royal Brompton and Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospitals, London

10.20 am Economic evaluation of telemedicine for Cardiology

Hema Mistry, Research Fellow in Health Economics, HERG, Brunel University

10.40 am Requirements to make research projects into routine service provision

Dr Gwyn Weatherburn, Reader in Medical Imaging, Buckinghamshire New University

11.00 am Round table panel and discussion

11.25 am Coffee break

11.40 am Telemedicine and heart failure

Professor John Cleland, Foundation Chair in Cardiology, University of Hull

12.00 pm EU trial of telemedicine for CHF

Professor Martin Cowie, Professor of Cardiology, Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Brompton Hospital

12.20 pm What remote monitoring of CHF means to carers

Glenis Johnston, Buckinghamshire New University

12.40 pm Round table panel and discussion

1.05 pm Lunch

2.05 pm Saving hearts in Scotland

Dr Karyn Webster, Clinical Research Fellow in TeleMedicine, Scottish Centre for Telemedicine

2.25 pm Wireless telemedicine in primary care - The Greater Manchester experience

Karen Gibbons and Luke Coleman, Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cardiac and Stroke Network

2.45 pm A patient’s experience of a self operated 12-lead ECG unit

Glenis Johnston, Buckinghamshire New University

3.05 pm Round table and panel discussion

3.30 pm Completion of evaluation forms

3.40 pm Close of meeting

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