Cardiac Science – 2025 review results

Current priority areas

• 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future
• Science in healthcare: Delivering the NHS Long Term Plan – The Chief Scientific Officer’s strategy

Stakeholder feedback

Feedback collecting through the Curriculum Library survey collected between January 2024 and November 2025. All stakeholder feedback is presented verbatim.

S-CS-R1 Introduction to Cardiac Science

Training activities

• Generally good training activities covering a range of cardiac tests.
• 3 – I feel that this is pitched too low for STP students. I feel that ECG is the foundation of a huge number of cardiac tests and therefore observing a single 12 lead ECG is not sufficient. I understand that there is a ECG module for the cardiac science students, but I feel that other specialties should be expected to observe more than a single ECG (which is how it reads). I would suggest the minimum change to be to ‘Observe 12-lead ECG recordings and interpretation and reflect on the procedure’.

S-CS-R2 Introduction to Electrocardiogram

• no feedback received

S-CS-S1  Cardiac Core

• no feedback received

S-CS-S2  Electrophysiology Procedures and Cardiac Rhythm Management

• no feedback received

S-CS-S3  Imaging (Echocardiography)

• no feedback received

Changes made

Module level changes

Programme level changes

• no changes made

Periodic review

This specialty curriculum requires significant change beyond the scope of an annual review.

Response – no

Rationale

Please provide an overview of the rationale for why the proposed changes are needed or why changes were not needed, with reference to stakeholder feedback.

Response

It was felt that the existing training activity required just one 12 lead ECG to be observed.  Editors agreed that this should be expanded to several procedures, and that observing a 12 lead being interpreted would also underpin the complexity and importance of the test, which can often be overlooked as less significant.

I confirm I have reviewed the Reflective Practice Guidance for ETAs and DTAs and have made any changes necessary.

Specialty Lead Editor signature: Nerys James, Gaynor Jones, Martin Stout, Adam Marzetti, Jonathan Kelly
Date: 22 December 2025

Change control - completed by the school

Programme structure

Completed by: Chris Fisher
Date: 6 January 2026

Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) mapping

• no changes to learning outcomes, HCPC mapping maintained

Completed by: Chris Fisher
Date: 6 January 2026