Education & Training
Regular Teaching
Listing of training opportunities available to all our network colleagues.
FREE ACHD Education: Clinical Cases Series (BSE Endorsed)
Last Tuesday of every month, 08:00-09:00 on MS Teams
Hosted by: ACHD Department at GSTT
Endorsed by: BSE with 0.5 points per session for BSE Members
Suitable for: Everyone in the ACHD Network
For further details, contact: dario.freitas@nhs.net or harith.alam1@nhs.net
Upcoming sessions
27/10/26: Ventricular Septal Defect – Time for revision. Jenny Chan, Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals
24/11/26: End-stage Congenital Heart Disease – How echocardiography can help. Speaker tbc
No session in December
26/01/27: Left heart obstructions in Congenital Heart Disease. Ruben Sousa & Nada Al-Sakini, Birmingham Hospitals
23/02/27: What can go wrong with the aorta in CHD? Speaker tbc
30/03/27: Sinus Venosus – Is it really an ASD? Saleha Kabir, Evelina London Children’s Hospital
FREE Paediatric CHD Teaching
Usually Tues, Weds & Thurs only, 08:00-08:30 on MS Teams or ELCH Level 1 Walrus.
Hosted by:GSTT Paediatric CHD Teaching Team
Suitable for: Physiologists, Clinical Fellows, Paediatric Cardiologists, Network PECs, Cardiac Nurse Specialists and all healthcare staff who are interested in CHD.
General schedule
Tuesdays: General cardiology topics, including surgery/MRI-CT imaging/fetal/catheter
Wednesdays: ECG Teaching
Thursdays: Echocardiography
For further details, contact: a.spanaki@nhs.net
FREE Monthly PEC Education Course on MS Teams (RCPCH Endorsed)
3rd Wednesday of every month 17:05-18:00 (unless otherwise stated)
Faculty:
- Dr Owen Miller: Consultant in Paediatric & Fetal Cardiology, Deputy Medical Director and Director of International Services (Evelina London)
- Alex Savis: Senior Chief Cardiac Physiologist & Physiologist Lead in Research, Education and Training (Evelina London)
- Dr Adam Carter: Paediatrician with Expertise in Cardiology, Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
Intended audience: Available to Network PECs, Cardiac Physiologists and Registrars within the Lifelong CHD Network
Contact: gstt.chdnetwork@nhs.net
Please let us know which echo machine(s) you use by completing this short questionnaire: https://forms.office.com/e/ch4SpmXJhX
Upcoming Sessions
21/10/2026: AP Window, Manjit Josen
24/11/2026: Echo post catheter intervention – Part 2, Alex Savis. Note – moved due to clash with BCCA on 18 Nov
No session in December
20/01/2027: Exploring the range of normality, Adam Carter
FREE Formal Echo Teaching
Running every 2-3 weeks on a Tuesday
The sessions will be based around a case with discussions around the finer details of assessment with echo.
Organised by: Senior echocardiography colleagues from the Royal Brompton
Suitable for: Anyone who is learning echo or would like refreshers within the Lifelong CHD Network
As a PEC of the Lifelong CHD Network, you should already have received the MS Teams link. However if this is not the case or you need further details, please get in touch with helen.macgloin@nhs.net and ask to be added to the list.
Calendar Listing
In addition to training from within our CHD Network, we signpost any training we are aware of from other CHD Networks, and conferences from around the world. As we do not manage all of these, please always refer to the contact details listed.
The Bristol ACHD Echo Course
23-24 November 2026
Conference Overview
The course will cover all congenital lesions and aim to provide echo-anatomic correlation through a mixture of lectures, case workshops and morphology sessions. Sessions will be based around lesions and include talks on morphology, intervention and surgery and pre and post-repair echo, delivered by national experts in the field.
Provides:
- Invaluable structured teaching in ACHD echocardiography to cardiologists, cardiac physiologists and echocardiographers
- An ideal introduction to ACHD for all cardiology trainees specialising in imaging
- Comprehensive revision of echocardiography for ACHD specialists (including paediatric cardiologists and trainees with an interest in ACHD)
- A comprehensive curriculum for those preparing for BSE or EACVI accreditation or re-accreditation
- Interest and insight from echo-anatomic correlations and surgical illustrations for anyone working in ACHD
To see the programme and registger: click here
Foundations in Adolescent Healthcare
A dynamic module for professionals working with young people.
Foundations in Adolescent Healthcare
Online event
Course queries
Evelina Education team
Email: gstt.evelinaeducation1@nhs.net
Office: 020 718 80853
