BSE Points request Form

BSE POLICY ON THE NON-ANONYMISATION OF PATIENT DATA
This policy is relevant to all BSE invited speakers/presenters. The policy also applies to all presentations/lectures given
during courses that have applied for, or are in receipt of, BSE re-accreditation credits. It will be the responsibility of
course organisers to ensure invited speakers are aware of this policy.
It is a requirement that speakers presenting on behalf of the BSE at meetings and speakers on courses/meetings
awarded BSE re-accreditation points must ensure that all presentation material is anonymised.
Guidance is provided to NHS staff in the ‘NHS Code of Practice on Confidentiality’ (November 2003).
http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en/documents/digitalasset/dh_4069254.pdf
The duty of confidentiality arises out of the common law of confidentiality, professional obligations and also staff
employment contracts. Breach of confidence may lead to disciplinary measures, bring into question professional
reputation and possibly result in legal proceedings.
Patient information that can identify individual patients is confidential and must not be used or disclosed. In contrast,
anonymised information is not confidential and may be used.
Key identifiable information includes:
Patient’s name, address, full post code, date of birth;
NHS number and local identifiable codes;
Anything else that may be used to identify a patient directly or indirectly. For example, rare diseases, drug treatment
or statistical analyses which have very small numbers within a small population may allow individuals to be identified.
Anonimisation requires the removal of such information from all reports and images.
We appreciate that the removal of patient ID from cases may be difficult depending on the machine being used. We
therefore advise that images for use in presentations are specifically collected for that purpose and the data inputs are
made relevant to your presentation or library collection.
In instances where these stipulations have been breached, the BSE will reconsider future use of the presenter, or
withdrawal of BSE course re-accreditation credits.

BSE Points Request
Thank you for your application requesting BSE Points for a course. PLEASE NOTE only Course Organisers should complete this form and
requests for BSE points by attendees will not be considered. All requests must be sent along with a course programme; those received
without an appropriate programme outlining the educational timings/content will be returned directly to the Course Organiser. Please note a
PDF flyer advertisement is not sufficient. Departmental based meetings should not be submitted for BSE Points and will not be considered for
review.
All requests are to be submitted via email accreditation@bsecho.org or by post to BSE, DBC, 10-16 Tiller Road, London E14 8PX or by fax to
020 7345 5186 and will be reviewed by the committee on a monthly basis; the cut off point for requests is midday on the 15 th of each month.
Any requests received after this date will be delayed until the following month. Any inappropriate requests will delay the process. The
outcome of your request will be sent to you via email.
Course Organisers Information
Full Name:
E-mail Address:
Telephone number
Course Information
Name of course:
Date of course:
Location:
Start Time:
End time:
Please send a full programme along with this request, any requests sent without a programme will be returned.
Educational timings Educational content Speakers Additional information
Example – Day 1 (4 hours15mins) Example – 3D LV volumes, Valve Disease Example – Dr. Jones Supporting info to assist application

For BSE use only
I (Specialist meetings primarily devoted to
echocardiography)
e.g. BSE, EAE, ASE
II (International & National Cardiology
meetings)
e.g. BCS, ESC, ACC, AHA
1 per hour
Allocation 5 BSE points / Day
Allocation 3 BSE points / Day
Also included in class II,
National / Regional educational courses with a focus
solely on echocardiography , these are not designed to
replace the annual meeting but further support the
educational requirements of the whole society
membership.
III (Other meetings)
Local echo meetings with a minimum of 2 hrs of
Allocation 2 BSE points / Day
educational content (at least 1 educational speaker
must be an actively accredited BSE member)
Note - Case reviews are awarded no points in any category.
Departmental review meetings do not qualify for BSE points
BSE Administration use ONLY
Course Title
Tracking number
Date request received
Date sent to
Committee
Number of points
allocated
Course Organiser
informed
Completion date
Additional notes