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opportunity to support visits to cardiothoracic centres will continue, so I would recommend that you consider applying in the future and please do advertise the opportunity within your organisations. The advert generally goes out in the autumn with a December deadline and winners announced at the annual meeting in March. We will also be launching the Nursing and Allied health professional Research Group (NARG) in Glasgow under the guidance of Dr Julie Saunders, Director Clinical Research, Quality and Innovation, Barts Health and SCTS Nursing and AHP Academic and Research Lead. More information about this exciting development can be found in Julie’s article in this issue of the Bulletin. The postgraduate Nurses and Allied Health Practitioner day at EACTS was planned by nurses and allied health professionals from the UK, the Netherlands, and Denmark led by Richard van Valen, an Advanced Nurse Practitioner from Rotterdam. The 2017 postgraduate day was held on Sunday October 8th 2017 in the Convention Centre, Vienna. n
EACTS 2017 Christina Bannister, Nurse Case Manager
The SCTS CT Forum top marking presentation, Natalie Lambie from Golden Jubilee, Glasgow was invited to present at the meeting, and nurses from London, Brighton, Birmingham and Manchester also presented. We listened to plenary talks from Specialist Nurses, Allied Health Practitioners and Surgeons from across Europe and the States. We shared knowledge and experiences with other nurses and health care professionals from across Europe during the day, and gained many insights into differing ways of working. Once again, the presentations were peer reviewed and EACTS provided an award
for the best presentation. The 2017 award was jointly given to Rianne Rijsdijk, a SCP from Utrecht for her presentation on ‘Innovations: 100 procedures in 100 days, training of the SCP’ and Richard van Valen, an ANP from Rotterdam for his presentation on ‘Negative Pressure Wound Therapy on closed wounds, a real option?’ Congratulations go to both Rianne and Richard and our thanks go to EACTS for their continued support. n
SCTS Annual Football Cup Saturday 17TH MArch
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5-a-side competition
2018
Monday Venue : POWERLEAGUE Glasgow 19th Septemb 1 Kennedy St, Townhead, Glasgow G4 0EB
Grand Central Hotel 99 Gordon Street, Glasgow City Cen
Kick off 4pm |
Cost : £10 a team
The tournament is open to all cardiothoracic This ticket includes Drink, 3 course me centres, deaneries, andWelcome corporate groups.
Dress Code: Black Tie & Cocktail Dresses. *Quilts welcome ó (TFHMJX YT QJF[J
To register your team please contact Jalal BinSaeid : jalal.binsaeid@nhs.net Registration Deadline 3rd March