Guidelines

Key reference documents

BCCA Statement on COVID-19 Vaccination in Children (20 July 2021)
Consultant staffing in UK congenital cardiac services: a 10-year survey of leavers and joiners (Open Heart: first published on 8 July 2021)
- PDF + Supplementary Material
BCCA Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy statement (February 2021)
COVID-19: BCCA guidance for immunisation (18 January 2021)
COVID-19: BCCA updated guidance for patients, parents, charities and support groups in light of national lockdown for England (11 November 2020)
COVID-19: BCCA updated guidance for patients, parents, charities and support groups: Return to work and education, 2 September 2020
COVID-19: BCCA updated practical guidance for patients, parents, charities and support groups, 11 June 2020
BCCA updated COVID-19 guidance for extremely vulnerable groups with congenital heart disease (27 March 2020)
BCCA COVID-19 guidance for Vulnerable groups with congenital heart disease (18 March 2020)
BCCA COVID-19 guidance (13 March 2020)
Lifetime cardiovascular management of patients with previous Kawasaki disease (Kawasaki Disease Writing Group, on behalf of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and the British Cardiovascular Society. Published in Heart, March 2020)
Referral Guidelines for Accessing Congenital Services (October 2019)
BCCA response to UK National Screening Committee Consultation on the use of pulse oximetry screening for critical congenital heart defects (17 July 2019)
BCCA Constitution (as amended on 28 November 2018)
BCCA statement on reflective practice (October 2018)
Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme - Antibiotic Prophylaxis Against Infective Endocarditis Implementation Guidance (August 2018)
Diagnosis, Treatment, and Long-Term Management of Kawasaki Disease: A Scientific Statement for Health Professionals From the American Heart Association (published 29 March 2018)
Resuscitation to Recovery - A National Framework to improve care of people with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in England (March 2017)
Message from Professor David Anderson, BCCA President to BCCA members (21 December 2016)
Letter from BCCA Council to Michael Wilson in response to NHS England press release of 8 July 2016 (21 July 2016)
-NHS England press release on future commissioning of congenital heart disease services (8 July 2016)
Congenital Heart Disease Standards & Specifications 2016 (Published 23 May 2016)
BCCA position statement following St Jude Medical change in instructions for use for Amplatzer Septal Occluder (September 2015)
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
- Appendix 4
BCCA response to Department of Health Northern Ireland consultation - Delivering High Quality Congenital Cardiac Services (21 January 2015)
BCCA response to consultation on New Congenital Heart Disease Review Standards - 3 December 2014
Revalidation Guidance for Paediatricians with Expertise in Cardiology (PEC's) - October 2014
Shape of Training position statement to BCCA members (26 September 2014)
- RCP proposed model on Shape of Training (August 2014)
Management of Kawasaki disease (ADC Online First, published on 25 October 2013)

Letter from BCCA Council to Bill McCarthy NHS England re: congenital cardiac services in England 12 July 2013

Independent Reconfiguration Panel (IRP) report on Safe and Sustainable proposals for children's congenital heart services - submitted to the Secretary of State for Health 30 April 2013
BCCA statement regarding Leeds General Infirmary - 1 April 2013
BCCA Guidelines for interventional catheterisation in children - December 2012 (FINAL)

Guidance on Revalidation for Cardiologists from BCS Clinical Standards and Guidelines & Practice Committees - October 2012

BCCA letter Implementation Advisory Group - 14 August 2012

BCCA Fetal Cardiology Standards - April 2012

BCCA Standards Framework for Revalidation of Paediatric Cardiologists - January 2012
ACHD Interventions: Recommendations from a Joint Working Group of the British Congenital Cardiac Association (BCCA), British Cardiovascular Intervention Society (BCIS) and British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) - October 2011
A joint working group of the British Cardiovascular Society, British Congenital Cardiac Association and British Cardiovascular Intervention Society, in discussion with the Grown-Up Congenital Heart Patients Association, has produced recommendations for cardiac units that perform or wish to perform interventions in patients with congenital heart disease. The document focuses on PFO and ASD closure and is not concerned with more complex interventions that remain the preserve of specialist ACHD centres. It highlights the importance of a multidisciplinary team approach to the management of these patients and the need for links between 'Local ACHD centres' performing a limited range of interventions and 'Specialised ACHD Centres'. Particular emphasis is placed on the need for appropriate training, continuing competence, the avoidance of low volume or occasional practice and mandatory submission of data to CCAD. These recommendations will be reviewed in three years.
BCCA statement regarding the Safe and Sustainable paediatric cardiac surgical process - 18 February 2011
Joint statement from the British Congenital Cardiac Association (BCCA), Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland (SCTS) and Central Cardiac Audit Database (CCAD) relating to recent media coverage of paediatric surgical outcome data - 23 September 2010

BCCA statement - Telegraph article on paediatric surgical outcomes - September 2010

BCCA statement regarding press releases relating to reconfiguration of services - May 2010
- Response of the National Specialised Commissioning Team to recent media interest in the Safe and Sustainable review of paediatric cardiac surgery services in England - 29 April 2010
Outreach paediatric cardiology guide - revised October 2009

GUCH specialists definitions document - March 2009
Multicentre research - draft document, November 2008
- Flowchart of outline plan
- Participant of agreement form