Primary Care Cardiovascular Society

One week to go until our next Leaders in Lipids webinar on 14 Nov!
Join free and drop in to share clinical challenges in lipid management, meet QOF targets and access practical tools.
Catch up on session 1 now so you're prepared: bit.ly/483ImFs

Next week the PCCS 3rd Scotland Conference will be taking place in Glasgow! All the final preparations are happening and all the speakers are ready to welcome you all.

The final few places are available on our website: pccsuk.org/events/77/pc...

PCCS 3rd Scotland Conference 2025 Leaders in Lipids programme - check it out here.

With only two weeks to go, check out the full speaker line up and agenda for this years PCCS Scotland Conference -https://pccsuk.org/events/77/pccs_3rd_scotland_conference_2025

Whilst you are there make sure to register for your free space.

PCCS 3rd Scotland Conference 2025 Leaders in Lipids programme - check it out here.

With only two weeks to go, check out the full speaker line up and agenda for this years PCCS Scotland Conference -https://pccsuk.org/events/77/pccs_3rd_scotland_conference_2025

Whilst you are there make sure to register for your free space.

Three weeks to go until our expert faculty take to the stage at this years PCCS 3rd Scotland Conference!

We are looking forward to meeting everyone and hearing updates on heart failure, obesity management and more.

👉 Register now to secure your place: pccsuk.org/events/77/pc...

PCCS Newsletter Survey

🗣️ Have your say – help shape future PCCS newsletters!
We’re exploring new member-led features like a “Member’s Spotlight”, journal/book reviews, and a case study series.
We’d love you to share your thoughts!
📩 Take the 60-second survey here: bit.ly/4qdqZbw

PCCS Unscripted Podcast · Primary Care Cardiovascular Society · Welcome to PCCS Unscripted! The Primary Care Cardiovascular Society aims to support, educate and empower primary care healthcare practitioners to…

🎙️Introducing PCCS Unscripted - real conversations, no script. In our latest episode, Dr Xen Kassianides, Dr Hannah Wright & Mirek Skrypak explore how to kick-start quality improvement in primary care.
Listen now 👉 open.spotify.com/show/752FN5Z...

Continuing this weekend’s lifestyle focus…
Join @MyWellnessDoctr at #DPC2025 next week for her session on Integrating Lifestyle into Cardiometabolic Pathways.
A must-attend for anyone looking to embed prevention into everyday care: www.diabetesprofessionalcare.com
🗓️ Olympia London

This #WorldMenopauseDay embrace this year's theme: Lifestyle Medicine - your habits = your heart health ❤️
Explore our Academy module: Lifestyle & CVD, where @MyWellnessDoctr shows how diet + lifestyle can prevent heart disease pccsuk.org/academy/41/l...
#LifestyleMedicine

During #HealthcareQualityWeek, spotlight your team’s excellence in cardiovascular care🏆
If you’re part of a team delivering innovative, patient-centred care, we want to hear from you: bit.ly/46Xpp56

The PCCS 3rd Scotland Conference is less than one month away and we only have a few spaces left!

Join us in Glasgow to hear insights from our faculty about advancing the management of cardiovascular disease.

👉 Register now to secure your place: pccsuk.org/events/77/pc...

Missed the first Leaders in Lipids webinar? Catch up on demand before the next one on 14 Nov! It's free, flexible, and loaded with tools for QOF CHOL004 support.

Explore the new podcast and primary care toolkit for implementing a lipid service.

pccsuk.org/quality_impr...

Announcing our PCCS HCP of the Year Award!
Entries are open!
Nominate a colleague making a real impact in cardiovascular care 🫀 bit.ly/3KEfKZK%22

Announcement: Is your team transforming cardiovascular care? Nominate them for the PCCS Team of the Year Award 🏥 - entries are now open!
Further details here: bit.ly/46Xpp56

Our Council are hard at work today (and yesterday!) delivering sessions at #BestPracticeShow and #RespiratoryPC
If you'd like to know where you can find us next and gain free access to our Academy, then join our expanding membership for free here: pccsuk.org/join/

Are you heading to @bestpracticeshow.bsky.social on 9 October?
Don’t miss @clarejtaylor.bsky.social, “HFpEF for primary care”, in GP Clinical Theatre 2.

👉 Register now to secure your place: www.bestpracticeshow.co.uk/25-pccs

Best Practice Birmingham & Respiratory Professional Care 2025 Are you a UK Healthcare professional?

🚨 Don't miss @profrajthakkar.bsky.social session @bestpracticeshow.bsky.social
Raj will be delivering a 'Lipids Masterclass: Cracking the code on Cholesterol', in GP Clinical Theatre 2.

👉 Register now to secure your place:

Thrilled to announce Meredith Donaldson is on the speaker line-up at @BestPracticeUK in Birmingham! Make sure you’re registered and ready to catch her session.
Register here: www.bestpracticeshow.co.uk/25-pccs
8th - 9th Oct | NEC Birmingham
#BestPracticeShow #RespiratoryPC

Are you heading to @bestpracticeshow.bsky.social on 9 October?

Don’t miss Dr Jim Moore and @bevbostock.bsky.social session, “How to Mend a Woman’s Heart”, in GP Clinical Theatre 2.

👉 Register now to secure your place: www.bestpracticeshow.co.uk/25-pccs

Join Council member @bevbostock at #DPC2025 on 21 Oct at Olympia, London, for:
'Lipid management, keeping it simple'
The session simplifies national & international guidance on lipid management, enabling you to know who to treat, when & with what.
🔗 www.diabetesprofessionalcare.com

Look who we found in the studio today 👀..... the Past, Present & Future President of the PCCS, all together for today's webinar!

🚀Launching: Leaders in Lipids is live! A free virtual learning series to support lipid optimisation in UK primary care.
🗓 30 Sept @ 10:00–12:45 Webinar 1
Topics include LDL reduction, setting up an inclisiran service + QOF CHOL004 support.
🔗 bit.ly/483ImFs

✨ That’s a wrap!
8th Annual Conference closes with co-chairs @profrajthakkar.bsky.social & @bevbostock.bsky.social.
Thank you to our speakers, delegates & partners for making New Horizons in Cardiovascular Care such an inspiring event.
💙 What was your biggest takeaway from this year’s conference?

Heading into the final stretch!
Session 7: Heart Failure
🔹 Heart failure – what is optimal care in 2025? Sue Piper explored every element of care.
🔹 Heart failure update – the role of primary care in diagnosis & management with Nic Bowers.
❓ Live Q&A to close the session!

Lunch break: who will you nominate for PCCS Cardiovascular HCP or Team of the Year?

Got a standout colleague or team?

Nominate now 👉 pccsuk.org/pccs_cardiov...

#PCCSAwards

Next at #PCCS2025: Research Round Up 🔬
@profrajthakkar.bsky.social – PCCS Initiatives
@profderekconnolly.bsky.social – What’s on the horizon
Live Q&A

Explore PCCS research 👉 pccsuk.org/explore_pccs...

☕ Break at #PCCS2025!
Prof Vassilios Vassiliou: a GP may only see endocarditis once or twice in a career.
👉 Have you ever come across a case? We hope today’s session helps you feel ready if you do.

🌟 Day 2 of #PCCS2025 is underway!

Session 5: Heart Valves
• Dr Chris Arden & Dominik Schlosshan – heart valve disease in primary care
• Prof Vassilios Vassiliou – endocarditis prophylaxis
Live Q&A

UK HCPs can still join by emailing: registrations@lcwmed.co.uk

That’s a wrap on Day 1 of #PCCS2025!
Huge thanks to our speakers and delegates.

👉 UK HCPs can still join us tomorrow, email: registrations@lcwmed.co.uk

See what's on the agenda here: pccsuk.org/events/83/pc...

Final session of Day 1 #PCCS2025: Polypharmacy & Deprescribing in CVD
🩺 Dr Xenophon Kassianides (chair, live from Cyprus)
👩‍⚕️ Dr Lucy Pollock + Emily Turner
💬 HF case study + panel discussion on real-world practice