Implementation of Guidelines at National Level

Name: Implementation of Guidelines at National Level
Start: 2025-07-01T22:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-07-03T10:40:00+00:00

Warsaw, Poland

02 Jul 2025 - 03 Jul 2025

Add to calendar 2025-07-02T00:00 2025-07-03T12:40 Europe/Paris Implementation of Guidelines at National Level

CRT Onsite

Objectives of the CRT meeting

Focus on implementing Guidelines at the national level, involving National Cardiac Societies (NCS) together with other national stakeholders. This includes national health authorities, non-cardiological societies, allied professionals and suitable patient's associations.
Understand the pathways to improve implementation of ESC guidelines, using two recent ESC guidelines as working models, one in the acute setting and another in chronic primary and secondary prevention settings. Specifically, this will involve the implementation of the 2023 ESC Guidelines on Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) and 2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of elevated blood pressure and hypertension. The aim is to map out the journey from their release to their practical application by May 2025, using experience in both in-hospital and outpatient settings.
Identify weaknesses, address challenges and propose/hypothesize solutions to common obstacles at the national level in selected countries as ‘example’.
Present successful guidelines implementation paths in some countries.
Conclude the meeting by drafting a blueprint that could serve as a proposal for the NCS & ESC on implementing Guidelines, involving representatives from national cardiological and potentially related non-cardiological societies. A checkpoint could be planned in 6-8 months, with the final aim being to set up a working agenda for the next 4 to 5 years.

Programme

Day 1: 2 July 2025 13:00–18:20 CEST

13:00-13:10 - Welcome from the CRT Chairpersons by Cecilia Linde
13:10-13:25 - Chairpersons Perspective: How we arrived at this meeting and what we want to achieve by Bianca Rocca and Sanjay Gandhi (Philips)
13:25-14:20 - SESSION 1.1: Learning by Example Part 1 – Examples of Implementation in ACS, moderated by Robert Byrne and Ola Vedin (AstraZeneca)
13:25-13:40 - EUROHEART: a tool to analyze ACS treatment across Europe and harmonize strategies by Stefan James
13:40-13:55 - How ACVC specialists can implement the ESC 2023 ACS Guidelines by Kurt Huber
13:55-14:10 - Optimization of the ESC 2024 ACS guidelines after hospital discharge: the Swedish experience by Matthias Lidin
14:10-14:30 - PANEL DISCUSSION
14:30-14:40 - Short Break
14:40-18:20 - SESSION 1.2: Learning by Example Part 2 – New tools and strategies to successfully implement Guidelines in different settings, moderated by Bianca Rocca and Sanjay Gandhi (Philips)
14:40-14:55 - The ESC Chatbot: a tool for Guidelines implementation by Xavier Rossello
14:55-15:10 - Guidelines implementation: frameworks in relation to resource settings by Eva Prescott
15:10-15:25 - How patient versions of Guidelines can support implementation? by Inge Molgaard (ESC Patient Forum & Clinical Practice Guidelines member)
15:25-15:40 - PANEL DISCUSSION
15:40-16:10 - Coffee Break
16:10-17:10 - BREAKOUT SESSIONS: Applying Learnings from these Examples: what works well, strategies and solutions preparing tomorrow’s breakout
- Group 1: Implementation of the ESC 2023 ACS guidelines: Strategies to adapt across national resource settings and the contribution of the national societies. Lead: Felix Mahfoud, Rapporteur: Friedric Fuchs (Siemens-Healthineers)
- Group 2: ESC Guidelines implementation via joint decision-making: Specialty and patient versions, to enhance mutual understanding. Lead: Katja Rohwedder (Bayer), Rapporteur: Tomas Lapinskas
- Group 3: ESC Guidelines implementation in the real-world setting: How data, clinical paths and technological tools support clinicians and patients. Lead: Ruxandra-Maria Christodorescu, Rapporteur: Valerie Gossye (J&J Innovative Medicine)
17:15-17:25 - Report from breakout session 1 by Rapporteur: Friedric Fuchs (Siemens-Healthineers)
17:25-17:35 - Report from breakout session 2 by Rapporteur: Tomas Lapinskas
17:35-17:45 - Report from breakout session 3 by Rapporteur: Valerie Gossye (J&J Innovative Medicine)
17:45-18:10 - PANEL DISCUSSION
18:10-18:20 - Wrap-up and summary Day 1 – Outlook to Day 2 by Robert Byrne and Ola Vedin (AstraZeneca)
END OF DAY 1
19:00 - APERITIF + DINNER

Day 2: 3 July 2025 08:30–12:40 CEST

8:30-8:40 - Summary of day 1, Set-up and Goals for Today by Robert Byrne and Bettina Kraus (BI)
8:45-10:30 - Developing paths and blueprints to improve implementation
- BREAKOUT Group B: Developing paths and blueprints to improve implementation of the ESC 2023 ACS guideline
- BREAKOUT Group A: Developing paths and blueprints to improve implementation of the ESC 2024 Hypertension guideline
8:45-8:55 - Successful examples of the ESC 2023 ACS Guidelines implementation: the experience of the Polish National Cardiological Society by Robert Gil
8:45-8:55 - The experience of the ERA (European Renal Association) on the implementation of the 2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of elevated blood pressure and hypertension by Carmine Zoccali (via Zoom)
8:55-9:05 - Successful examples of the ESC 2023 ACS Guidelines implementation: the experience of the ANMCO by Massimo Grimaldi
8:55-9:05 - How does ACNAP foresee the role of specialized nurses in the implementation of 2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of elevated blood pressure and hypertension? by Leonie Klompstra
9:05-9:15 - Implementation of guideline recommendation changes: The experience in Denmark by Christian Hassager
9:05-9:15 - The ESC Council on Cardiology Practice for the implementation of 2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of elevated blood pressure and hypertension by Luigina Guasti
9:15-10:30 - GROUP DISCUSSION and roadmap development towards creating a draft blueprint for national societies on implementing the ESC 2023 ACS guidelines
- Lead: Kurt Huber
- Rapporteur: Marek Gierlotka
9:15-10:30 - The ESC Council of Hypertension for the implementation of the 2024 Hypertension Guidelines by Eva Gerdts
9:25-10:30 - GROUP DISCUSSION and roadmap development towards creating a draft blueprint for national societies on implementing the ESC 2024 Hypertension guideline
- Lead: Leonie Klompstra
- Rapporteur: Teresa Glynn (Global Heart Hub)
10:30-10:50 - Coffee break
10:50-11:05 - Report from breakout group A on ACS by Rapporteur: Marek Gierlotka
11:05-11:35 - GROUP DISCUSSION about the roadmap proposal related to the ESC 2023 ACS guidelines
11:35-11:50 - Report from breakout group B on Hypertension by Rapporteur: Teresa Glynn (Global Heart Hub)
11:50-12:20 - GROUP DISCUSSION about the roadmap proposal related to the ESC 2024 Hypertension guideline
12:20-12:30 - NEXT STEPS: Define Checkpoints, working agenda for coming years by Cecilia Linde and Ola Vedin (AstraZeneca)
12:30-12:40 - Wrap-up & conclusion
END OF DAY 2
12:45 - Buffet lunch and departures