
About us
Who we are

What we do

Membership
The BCS supports cardiovascular health professionals by offering education, resources, and benefits. With over 3,000 members worldwide, it provides discounted conference access, course fees, and free educational materials through various membership categories.

Education
BCS offers courses covering a cardiologist’s entire career, from training to practice. It defines expected skills for trainees and professionals. Members receive discounted registration fees for many courses available on the website.

BCS Conference
The British Cardiovascular Society Annual Conference is the UK’s leading and largest cardiovascular event. It attracts over 2,000 cardiovascular healthcare professionals, predominantly cardiologists, but also including basic and translational scientists, nurses, cardiac physiologists and scientists, and primary care staff.

This page offers documents, publications, and reports from the BCS Clinical Standards Division, which defines national standards, reviews guidelines, and advises on regulatory matters affecting cardiovascular healthcare in the UK, supporting members’ professional clinical practice.

Our Partners
The British Cardiovascular Society values strong collaboration with industry and is grateful that this facilitates delivery of the annual conference and our wider educational agenda. This benefits our membership, affiliated bodies, clinicians, researchers and patients.

BCS Mission, Values & Strategy
The BCS has recently redeveloped its Mission statement and organisational Values. In 2025 it also introduced a new three-year Strategy, focusing on three strategic priorities – leadership, education and clinical excellence.
Statements

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
The BCS is committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse environment for all cardiovascular professionals: for our members, patients, staff, Affiliated Societies and other stakeholders across all our activities.