Sponsorship opportunities at BCS

Find details of live booking numbers, target attendance figures, previous years’ attendance figures, audience demographics, and draft programmes and speakers to help decide if sponsoring a BCS course is right for you and your organisation. 

Educational courses

Target attendance

120

Live booking numbers

52

Programme and speakers

Monday – Valvular & Myocardial Disease

  • Mitral/Tricuspid Valve Disease – Assessment and Medical Management –Dr Benoy Shah
  • Mitral/Tricuspid Valve Disease – Intervention and Surgery Management – Professor Phil McCarthy
  • Dilated & Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy – TBC
  • Infiltrative Cardiomyopathies – Dr Lavanya Athithan
  • Heart Failure – HfpEF – Dr Paul McKie
  • Aortic Valve Disease – Assessment & Medical Management – Dr Anvesha Singh
  • Expert panel Q&A
  • Aortic Valve Disease – Interention & Surgery – Professor Rajiv Gulati
  • Heart Failure – HFpEF – Dr Paul McKie
  • Infective Endocarditis – Professor Bernard Prendergast
  • Transplant and durable VAD – Dr Stephen Pettit
  • Practical approach to appraising papers and trials – Professor André Ng
  • Expert panel Q&A
  • Essentials of Haemodynamics – Catch Cases – Dr Malcolm Bell
  • Interactive Case-Based Discussion – Dr Stephen Pettit & Dr Paul McKie

Tuesday – Atherosclerosis

  • Investigation of stable chest pain – Dr Louise Buchanan
  • Diabetes and CV disease – new therapeutic options – Professor Derek Connolly
  • Acute Coronary Syndromes – medical therapy and PCI – Dr Malcolm Bell
  • Stable CAD – GDMT / elective revascularisation (CABG vs. PCI) – Professor Divaka Perera
  • Expert panel Q&A
  • Interactive Case-Based Discussion – Professor Divaka Perera & Professor Derek Connolly
  • ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction – Professor Rajiv Gulati
  • Sports Cardiology – TBC
  • Anti-thrombotic in ACS: Cases and Guidelines – Dr Malcolm Bell
  • Essentials of Cardiac Surgery for the Cardiologist – Dr Sunil Bhudia
  • Peri-operative management of non-cardiac & cardiac surgery – Professor Rajiv Gulati
  • Expert panel Q&A
  • Interactive Case-Based Discussion – Dr Malcolm Bell & Dr Sunil Bhudia

Wednesday – General Cardiology

  • Pericardial Disease – Dr Tevfik Ismail
  • Critical Care Cardiology & Shock – Professor Susanna Price
  • Pulmonary Hypertension – Dr Sarah Bowater
  • Genetics for the Cardiologist – Dr Catherine Mercer
  • Cardiac Tumors – TBC
  • Cardio-Oncology – Dr Rebecca Dobson
  • Expert panel Q&A
  • Industry Sponsored Session – TBC
  • Hypertension – TBC
  • Dyslipidaemia – Professor Derek Connolly
  • Obesity – TBC
  • Expert panel Q&A
  • Interactive Case-Based Discussion – Professor Derek Connolly & Professor Trisha Tan
  • Drinks reception at BCS Headquarters, 9 Fitzroy Square

Thursday – Arrhythmias

  • Bradycardia & Pacing – TBC
  • Supraventricular Tachycardia – Dr Shouvik Haldar
  • Syncope – TBC
  • IDC & CRT Therapy – Dr Paul Friedman
  • Expert panel Q&A
  • Atrial Fibrillation – Dr Paul Friedman
  • Sudden Cardiac Death & Inherited Channelopathies – Dr Greg Mellor
  • Ventricular Tachycardia – Professor André Ng
  • Understanding Artificial Intelligence in Cardiology – Dr Paul Friedman
  • Expert panel Q&A
  • Practice – Interactive ECG-based Cases and Traces – Dr Paul Friedman

Friday – Imaging and Adult Congenital Heart Disease

  • Echocardiography – Professor Guy Lloyd
  • Cardiac CT – Dr Jonathan Weir McCall
  • Nuclear Cardiology – Dr Nikant Sabharwal
  • Advanced Echocardiography – Professor Guy Lloyd
  • Cardiac MRI – TBC
  • Practice – Multi Modality Images with the experts – Dr Andrew Kelion
  • Expert panel Q&A
  • Congenital Heart Disease: Simple – Dr Sam Fitzsimmons
  • Congenital Heart Disease: Complex – Dr Sam Fitzsimmons
  • Heart Disease in Pregnancy – Dr Anna Herrey
  • Expert panel Q&A
  • Interactive Case-Based Discussion – Dr Aidan Bolger & Dr Anna Herrey
  • Feedback & Reflection – Professor André Ng

Audience demographics

  • Cardiology resident doctors
  • NHS cardiology consultants
  • Non-NHS cardiology consultants
  • National spread (UK)
  • International audience

Previous years' attendance figures

  • 2025: 108
  • 2024: 143
  • 2023: 121
  • 2022: 89

Sponsorship costs

5 day sponsorship

  • Principal Partner: £12,000
  • Non–partner: £15,000

Individual day sponsorship

  • Principal Partner: £3,000
  • Non–partner: £4,000

30-minute symposium: £10,000

Sponsorship benefits

  • Connect with your target audience during breaks
  • Tabletop stand in a prominent space
  • Logo display at the venue and on holding slides
  • Acknowledgement as sponsor with logo and transparency statement across promotional and course materials, including:
    • BCS member emails
    • BCS Social media posts
    • Course programme
    • Venue signage
    • Course booking webpage
  • Four exhibitor/delegate places at the course

Target attendance

100

Live booking numbers

1

Programme and speakers

Session 1 – Preparing for PhD

  • Integrating research in your career: why and when? – Dr Peysh Patel
  • Building a CV and finding a supervisor – Dr Sam Straw
  • What makes a good fellowship application? – Professor Dana Dawson & Dr Joe Cuthbert
 

Session 2 – Finding Success in your PhD

  • “PhD: my perspective as a trainee – challenges and opportunities” – Dr Holly Morgan, Dr Amit Kaura & Dr Luke Spray
  • Oral presentation skills – Professor Klaus Witte
  • Manuscript writing – Professor Kazem Rahimi
 

Session 3 – Sustaining success after PhD

  • Benefits of mentoring: who and how? – Dr Upsana (Paz) Tayal
  • Post PhD planning – Dr Louise Coats
  • Skills development session – BHF Heart Voices
 

Session 4 – Long term academic success

  • Keynote lecture: “My journey as a clinical academic” – Professor Alex Rothman
  • Q&A

Audience demographics

  • Resident doctors
  • Consultants
  • Nurses

Previous years' attendance figures

  • 2025: 64
  • 2024: 54
  • 2022 – 2023: Not held
  • 2021: 67

Sponsorship costs

  • Principal Partner: £6,000
  • Non–partner: £7,500

Sponsorship benefits

  • Connect with your target audience during breaks
  • Tabletop stand in a prominent space
  • Logo display at the venue and on holding slides
  • Acknowledgement as sponsor with logo and transparency statement across promotional and course materials, including:
    • BCS member emails
    • BCS Social media posts
    • Course programme
    • Venue signage
    • Course booking webpage
  • Four exhibitor/delegate places at the course

Target attendance

140

Live booking numbers

1

Example programme and speakers - 2025

Session 1: Holistic Care of Cardiology Patients

  • Navigating General Internal Medicine in the new cardiology curriculum – Professor Mark Westwood
  • A logical approach to managing patients with complex multimorbid conditions – Dr Shuli Levy
  • Key principles of palliative and end of life care – Ms Hayley Hawkins
  • Q&A
 
 

Session 2: Cardiometabolic Challenges

  • Obesity in 2024, GLP-1 agonists, who to start, how to manage – Dr Matthew Lee
  • Practical interpretation & management of abnormal thyroid function tests – Dr Daniel Morganstein
  • A stepwise approach to management of type 2 diabetes mellitus – Professor Edward Jude
  • Q&A
  • Industry Sponsored Symposium session
 
 

Session 3: Renal and Gastroenterology

  • Key Principles of acute kidney injury management – Professor Sunil Bhandari
  • Cardio-Renal Optimisation: Chronic kidney disease in cardiac patients – Professor Debasish Banerjee
  • Gastro-intestinal bleeding in the cardiology patient: Challenges with antiplatelet and anticoagulants – Professor Andrew Veitch
  • Q&A
 
 

Session 4: Respiratory

  • Core principles of obstructive sleep apnoea – Dr Shruthi Konda
  • Practical workshop on interpretation of lung function tests – Dr Nazia Chaudhuri
  • Best practices of asthma and COPD management – Dr Owais Kadwani
  • Q&A

Audience demographics

  • Resident Doctors
  • Consultants
  • Medical Directors
  • Regional Medical Advisor

Previous years' attendance figures

  • 2025: 50

Sponsorship costs

  • Principal Partner: £6,000
  • Non–partner: £7,500
  • 30-minute symposium: £10,000

Sponsorship benefits

  • Connect with your target audience during breaks
  • Tabletop stand in a prominent space
  • Logo display at the venue and on holding slides
  • Acknowledgement as sponsor with logo and transparency statement across promotional and course materials, including:
    • BCS member emails
    • BCS Social media posts
    • Course programme
    • Venue signage
    • Course booking webpage
  • Four exhibitor/delegate places at the course

Target attendance

100

Live booking numbers (not open to book)

0

Example programme and speakers - 2024

  • Enhancing Clinical Skills in Cardiac Nursing – Tara Bartley
  • Structural – Periprocedural Management of the Patient Undergoing Intervention – Angela Kirk
  • Enhancing Patient Outcomes: Up-Titration of the 4 Pillars Used in Heart Failure – Priya Reehal
  • Heart Failure – Who Needs a Device and Why? – Dr Manav Sohal
  • Structural – Indications for TAVI, m-TEER, t-TEER – Dr Ee Ling Heng
  • ECH Interpretation: An Interactive Case Approach – Dr Shouvik Haldar
  • Nurse Prescribing: Principles for Continuous Improvement – Janine O’Rourke
  • Reaching the Heights: How Can I Become a Nurse Consultant? – Alison Pottle
  • Embedding Research Into My Career: What Options and How? – Professor Gerry Lee
  • Preventive Cardiology and Public Health: Implementing RF Screening and Prevention Programs in High-Risk Populations – David Burnett
  • Keynote: Why We Have the Best Job in the World – Carys Barton

Audience demographics

  • Nurses
  • National spread (UK)

Previous years' attendance figures

  • 2025: 103
  • 2024: 123

Sponsorship costs

  • Principal Partner: £6,000
  • Non–partner: £7,500
  • 30-minute symposium: £10,000

Sponsorship benefits

  • Connect with your target audience during breaks
  • Tabletop stand in a prominent space
  • Logo display at the venue and on holding slides
  • Acknowledgement as sponsor with logo and transparency statement across promotional and course materials, including:
    • BCS member emails
    • BCS Social media posts
    • Course programme
    • Venue signage
    • Course booking webpage
  • Four exhibitor/delegate places at the course

Target attendance

140

Live booking numbers (not open to book)

0

Example programme and speakers - 2025

Session 1: Guidelines and Hot Topics

  • 2025 ESC/EACTS Guidelines – Valvular Heart Disease – Professor Jonas Lanz
  • 2025 ESC Guidelines – Myocarditis and pericarditis – Professor Vanessa Ferreira
  • 2025 ESC Guidelines – cardiovascular disease during pregnancy – Dr Matthew Cauldwell
  • 2025 ESC Guidelines – Focused update Dyslipidaemias – Professor Jeanine Roeters van Lennep
  • Ask the Experts Q&A
  • 2025 ESC Consensus Statement – Mental health and cardiovascular disease – Professor Christi Deaton
  • Cardiology & the NHS Long Term Plan: From Ambition to Impact – Professor Simon Ray
  • Ask the Experts Q&A
 
 

Session 2: Subspecialties Update

  • Structural Heart Disease – Dr Tiffany Patterson
  • Electrophysiology – Professor Rachel Myles
  • Heart Failure & Devices – Dr Fozia Ahmed
  • Coronary Artery Disease – Medical & Intervention – Dr Shazia Hussain
  • Ask the Experts Q&A
  • Adult Congenital Heart Disease – Dr Joanna Lim
  • Cardiac Imaging (CT, CMR, Nuclear & Echo) – Dr Boyang Liu, Dr Daniel Sado, Dr Rebecca Schofield & Dr Dominik Schlosshan
  • Ask the Experts Q&A

Audience demographics

  • Resident doctors
  • Consultants

Previous years' attendance figures

  • 2025: 136
  • 2024: 132
  • 2023: 115
  • 2022 (took place in early 2023): 66 (postponed due to rail strikes)
  • 2021: 86
  • 2020: 349 (online)
  • 2019: 133
  • 2018: 127
  • 2017: 137
  • 2016: 98

Sponsorship costs

  • Principal Partner: £6,000
  • Non–partner: £7,500
  • 30-minute symposium: £10,000

Sponsorship benefits

  • Connect with your target audience during breaks
  • Tabletop stand in a prominent space
  • Logo display at the venue and on holding slides
  • Acknowledgement as sponsor with logo and transparency statement across promotional and course materials, including:
    • BCS member emails
    • BCS Social media posts
    • Course programme
    • Venue signage
    • Course booking webpage
  • Four exhibitor/delegate places at the course

Webinars

BCS Annual Conference

For stand and symposium opportunities at the BCS annual Conference, please visit the BCS Annual Conference page.