Agenda

thursday
20 November
friday 
21 november

8.45am - 9.10am

Sponsored Symposium

9.10am - 9.35am

Sponsored Symposium

9.20am - 9.30am

Welcome Session

- Chair’s Opening Address - Member Conversation - Lisa Anderson

9.35am - 9.40am

Welcome Session

- Introduction of the new BSH Board and handover to new BSH Chair - Carys Barton

9.30am - 10.45am

Session 1: Setting the Scene

Chair: Theresa McDonagh

- NICOR National Heart Failure Audit - Suzanna Hardman and Pete Jones                         

- Modern Service Framework - Jessica Randall-Carrick

- NICE HF update - Abdallah Al-Mohammad

- Panel discussion & Q&A

9.40am - 10.25am

Session 7:  Heart Failure Trials Update

Chair: Janine Beezer and Iain Squire

- BSH RIN Update and QUAD HF - John Cleland and Henry Savage

- Clinical Trials Update - John McMurray

- Presentation of Early Investigators Award

11.10am - 12.20pm

Session 2: Digital Session

Chairs: Rajiv Sankaranarayanan and Poppy Brooks 

- AI - Ami Banjeree  

- Find-HF - Clare Taylor and Chris Gale  

- Clinical Applications of AI in HF - Sarah Hudson

- Digital Healthcare in Cardiac Rehabilitation: Driving Innovation & Improving Outcomes - Maria Glover

- Panel discussion & Q&A

10.25am - 11.25am

Session 8: Challenges Beyond Ejection Fraction

Chairs: Patricia Campbell and Simon Duckett

- Cardiorenal - Smeeta Sinha

- Amyloid and Imaging - Carol Whelan & Shaun Robinson

- Novel Therapeutics for the Cardiomyopathies - Perry Elliott

- Panel discussion & Q&A

12.20pm - 12.50pm

Session 3: Philip Poole Wilson Memorial Lecture

Chair: Lisa Anderson

- Introduction - Lisa Anderson

- Philip Poole-Wilson Memorial Lecture 

11.45am - 12.10pm

Session 9: JAAC-HF Lecture

 Chairs: Lisa Anderson and Paul Kalra

Reframing Heart Failure: Preventing and Treating the Syndrome, Its Causes, and Comorbid Conditions - Biykem Bozkurt

1.20pm - 1.45pm 

Sponsored Symposium 


1.55pm - 2.20pm

Sponsored Symposium

12:40pm - 1.05pm

Sponsored Symposium


1.10pm - 1.35pm

 Sponsored Symposium

2.30pm - 3.45pm 

Session 4: Prevention Across 4 Nations

Chair: Delyth Rucarean and Paul Forsyth

- Prevention - NHSE - Rani Khatib

- Scotland - Kylie Barclay

- Northern Ireland - Patrick Donnelly 

- Wales - Gethin Ellis

- Panel discussion & Q&A

1.40pm - 2.35pm

Session 10: Obesity

Chairs: Vicky Ruszala and Becky Hyland

- How obesity interacts with the heart - Jenny Rayner

- Managing cardio-renal-metabolic disease in the frail patient - Nigel Beckett

Practicalities with GLP-1 - Paul Forsyth

- Keynote speech: CVD Prevention, A National and Personal Perspective - John Deanfield

4.15pm - 5.00pm

Session 5: Fellows, Fellowships and EIA

Chairs: Mark Petrie and Yvonne Millerick  

- BSH Fellowships - Roy Gardner

- EIA Rapid Fire Abstracts

- BSH Research Fellows Update - Elton Luo and Janine Beezer

3.00pm - 4.00pm

Session 11: Quiz Universally Challenged

 Chair: Carys Barton

- Quizmaster - Andrew Clark

- MRI, ECG, Echo

- Devices

- Clinical Cases

- Research

5.00pm - 5.30pm

Session 6: Hyde Park

Chair: Patricia Campbell 

- Will Watson

- Andy Morley Smith 


Closing Remarks: Carys Barton

4.00pm - 4.05pm

Closing Remarks 2025

- Carys Barton

The British Society for Heart Failure Annual Meeting 2025 sponsored by various pharmaceutical companies. These organisations have had no input into the development of the conference programme, or influenced the choice of speakers. This excludes the sponsored symposia sessions, where the programme is developed and speakers identified by the sponsor. Sponsoring organisations will not be contributing in any way to the organisation and running of any social activities around the conference period. Click here for a full sponsors list


Masterclasses- subject to change

Thursday 20 November



1

9.30am - 10:15am

Heart Failure Academy

Rani Khatib

2

11.35am - 12.20pm

Bayer - ATTR-CM: Insights into Early Detection and Emerging Clinical Data

Yousuf Razvi and Marianna Fontana

This symposium is organised and fully funded by Bayer Plc, contains promotional content and is intended for UK Health care professionals only. Adverse event reporting and prescribing information is available at the meeting. 

PP-BEY-GB-0090 - November 2025

3

2.30pm - 3.15pm

AstraZeneca - Unmasking Cardiac ATTR Amyloidosis: Connecting Clues, Care, and Collaboration

Will Moody and Marianna Fontana

This is a non-promotional symposium sponsored and organised by AstraZeneca and is intended for UK HCPs only.

4

4.15pm- 5.00pm

Challenging cases in HF: Primary Care

Raj Thakkar and Nicole McKelvie


Friday 21 November

5

9.40am - 10.25am

Pfizer Role of Echocardiography in ATTR-CM: Suspect Early and Act Decisively

Lucia Venneri

6

10.45am- 11.30am

AstraZeneca, Enabling RAASi optimisation in the real world

Aaron Wong and Matthew Stanley

This is a promotional symposium sponsored and organised by AstraZeneca and is intended for UK HCPs only.

7

11.45am - 12.30pm

When the drugs don’t work: getting your advanced heart failure patient into a transplant centre

Sai Bhagra with Andy Morley Smith


8

1.40pm - 2.25pm

BMS From Insight to Action: Empowering HF Clinicians with Mavacamten

Antonis Pantazis, Bethan Cowley, Will Jenkins and Chris Critoph



We are grateful to all our Partners and exhibitors whose funding of exhibition packages have contributed towards this independently produced programme. Exhibitors have not had any editorial input into or control over the agenda, scientific content development or choice of speakers, excluding dedicated industry symposia and masterclasses.


The BSH Annual Meeting 2025 has been approved by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom for 10 category 1 (external) CPD credit(s). 

Contact

Email: events@bsh.org.uk

Phone: + 44(0) 203 606 0798