Footnotes

• Competing interests: In compliance with EBAC/EACCME guidelines, all authors participating in Education in Heart have disclosed potential conflicts of interest that might cause a bias in the article. Ben Bridgewater is a member of the steering group of the Northwest quality improvement program in cardiac interventions, a member of the executive committee of the STCTS and a Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons of GB and Ireland representative on the Tripartite group (SCTS, Department of Health and Healthcare Commission) steering national cardiac surgical audit. Bruce Keogh is the president of the SCTS, and the Medical Director of the NHS.