Education Committee

The Education Committee (EC) is a multi-disciplinary group of members, developing expertise in specific areas and educational tools to compliment all aspects of heart failure care. All activities support the BSH aims and promote the importance of heart failure as a national priority by proactively sharing excellent practice in heart failure care. Working alongside the BSH Research Committee we incorporate research-based evidence into practice and ensure that BSH digital resources and training initiatives are relevant and up to date. In addition, the EC will seek to establish close working relationships with equivalent educational workgroups of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as well as regional groups operating throughout the UK.

  • Sue Piper

    Consultant Cardiologist, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London and Past Chair of the Education Committee

  • Simon Duckett

    Chair: Cardiology consultant specialising in heart failure and cardiac imaging at University Hospital, North Midlands and Chair of the Education Committee

  • Yvonne Millerick

    Lead Nurse Lecturer for the heart failure palliative care “Caring Together” programme, within NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

  • Clare Taylor

    General Practitioner and NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer, University of Oxford, Oxford

  • Lavanya Athithan

    Cardiology Registrar, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

  • Kerys Thomas

    Specialist Heart Failure Pharmacist, Swansea Bay University Health Board

  • Maggie Simpson

    Advanced Clinical Nurse Specialist, NHS Golden Jubilee, Glasgow

  • Rushabh Shah

    GP Principal and a GPSI in cardiology, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

  • Silapiya Smith

    Heart Failure Specialist Nurse

  • Ian Loke

    Heart Failure Lead, University of Leicester NHS Trust

  • Lynn Hedgecoe

    Member of the Patient Advisory Panel

  • Alice Burkmar

    Member of the Patient Advisory Panel

  • Nina Karia

    Royal Free Hospital

  • Carys Barton

    Heart Failure Nurse Consultant at Imperial College Healthcare Trust

  • Vicky Ruszala

    Specialist pharmacist in cardiology and heart failure at North Bristol NHS Trust.

  • Daniel Doherty

    Clinical Research Fellow and Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the University of Glasgow. Currently undertaking a PhD examining the use of novel circulating biomarkers of congestion in heart failure. Cardiology Registrar in the West of Scotland.

  • Henry Procter

    Cardiology registrar
    Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust