The Society and its objectives:
The BSCMR was formed in 2004 with the following aims:
- to promote clinical practice and research into cardiovascular magnetic resonance and to disseminate the useful results of such research
- to further the advancement of education in cardiovascular magnetic resonance for the public benefit
This website is designed for the benefit of all BSCMR members. If you would like to contribute to this site such as announce local meetings or make any contribution please contact us.
Latest news:
CMR survey 2011
This survey was made Dr Renjith Antony in association with Dr Mark Petrie at the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Glasgow and was supervised on behalf of BSCMR by Dr Gerry McCann at Leicester Royal Infirmary. The survey shows that CMR is growing rapidly in the UK with 60 active centres, 53 of which responded to the questionnaire. The vast majority of scans are still performed in a small number of high-volume centres and there are a number of smaller units undertaking less than the number (500) per annum that is recommended to maintain competence and for training purposes. There also seems to be a deficiency in formal audit processes.
The survey has also flagged up two further areas of concern: 1. training and mentoring, particularly in smaller volume centres; and 2. regional disparity of access to CMR services that will need to be addressed by the cardiovascular imaging community. The Society will play a leading role in this process working with other key stakeholders. Please find a link to the article, which was recently published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (an open-access BioMed Central journal), here.
7th BSCMR Annual Meeting – 14 March 2012
The next BSCMR Annual Meeting is to be held at the New Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, on Wednesday 14 March 2012. The deadline for Early Bird registrations and Abstract submissions will be 10 February 2012. A programme and registration form is available here.
British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) Annual Conference, 28–30 May 2012, Manchester
The Society will hold be involved with session/s at this conference. Further details will be available in the coming months.
**NEW BSCMR/BSCI 'Delivering CMR in the UK' guidelines
BSCMR/BSCI_CMR_standards_2010 Published 6th April 2010, review date April 2012.
This document outlines all aspects relevant to the roll-out of CMR in the UK including: estimated scan anc centre numbers needed nationally, minimum equipment standards, staffing standards, minimum scan numbers per centre, staff training, governance, audit, and a voluntary system for centres to become CMR.
Proposal on CMR Codes and Tariffs
As you may be aware, together with the British Society of Cardiac Imaging (BSC), the BSCMR Board (with Dr James Moon leading the effort) has, in recent months, been working with the Department of Health to develop a proposal on CMR codes and tariffs. In the interim, these codes and tariffs have now been endorsed for local commissioning and data collection and we hope will be taken forward within the formal coding/tariff NHS systems.
This is a major achievement for CMR, possibly the single most important step to establishing CMR more widely in the UK. The document can be downloaded here, and the cover letter from Erika Denton here. We hope you find it useful.
Oxford University Press Book Club
Oxford University Press is pleased to offer members of the British Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance an exclusive 20% discount on all medicine titles. For further details click here.