NeoHeart Europe 2026
Bridging Disciplines, Advancing Neonatal Cardiac Care
Thursday 9-Friday 10 July 2026
With a pre-conference workshop day on Wednesday 8 July and NPE course on Saturday 11 July
BMA House, London
View the programme HERE
Please note that tickets are fully booked. If you wish to join the waitlist for returns, please email [email protected].
NeoHeart Europe 2026 marks the first European expansion of the globally recognised NeoHeart Conference - an international forum dedicated to improving outcomes for newborns with critical congenital heart disease and cardiorespiratory failure. With significant variation in neonatal cardiac outcomes across Europe, the need for a unified, multidisciplinary educational platform has never been greater.
This inaugural European event brings together leaders across foetal medicine, neonatology, paediatric cardiology, cardiac intensive care and cardiac surgery. Designed as an intimate, high-impact meeting, NeoHeart Europe 2026 will deliver immersive workshops, evidence-based updates, and cross-disciplinary dialogue aimed at harmonising standards, improving outcomes and accelerating innovation.
Hosted by Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Neonatal Heart Society
NPE at NeoHeart on Saturday 11 July
We are also hosting a bespoke Neonatologist Performed Echocardiography (NPE) introductory course on Saturday 11 July. You can find out more, and sign up to attend HERE.
Learning objectives
- Enhance insight into fetal and neonatal cardiovascular physiology: Gain a robust understanding of the essential principles governing fetal and neonatal cardiovascular physiology. Explore how these principles inform evidence-based strategies to optimise newborn cardiac function.
- Advance diagnostic and therapeutic expertise in complex neonatal cardiac conditions: Strengthen clinical proficiency in multimodal imaging, interventional cardiology, surgical techniques, and critical care approaches. Enhance your ability to diagnose and manage high-risk neonatal cardiac pathologies with confidence.
- Strengthen multidisciplinary decision-making and ethical, family-centred care: Develop collaborative frameworks for integrated care planning across fetal and neonatal cardiac teams, surgeons, neonatologists, and intensivists. Apply sound ethical principles to guide shared decision-making and support families through complex clinical trajectories.
Who should attend?
Neonatologists, Paediatric cardiologists, Paediatric intensivists, Cardiac intensivists, Neonatal cardiac surgeons, Nurses, Allied Health Professionals, and hospital administrators.
Programme
- Wednesday 8 July: Pre-conference day (interactive workshops)
- Thursday 9-Friday 10 July: NeoHeart Europe 2026 Conference
The draft programme is attached. Colleagues attending the pre-conference workshop day will be asked to select which morning and afternoon workshop they would like to attend on the registration form. Workshops will be allocated on a first come, first served basis; we will confirm which workshops you are attending within a week of your registration being made. Once a workshop is full, it will be removed from the list of options. Please note that the programme is draft and subject to change. A full programme, with speaker information included, will be shared in due course.
Abstract Competition
The NeoHeart Europe 2026 call for abstracts deadline has now passed. Entrants have been informed of the outcome.
BMJ Paediatrics Open is the official journal of the NeoHeart Europe 2026 Conference.
Overview of competition: This is your opportunity to showcase new scientific research as an abstract or as an interesting case in one of the following fields: Neonatal Hemodynamics, Congenital Heart Disease (CICU, Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery & Anaesthesia), Bench to Bedside (research), Fetal or Other.
The three top-scoring abstracts/cases will be invited to give an oral presentation during the conference. The next ten highest scoring abstracts/cases will be invited to give a poster presentation next to their digital poster during the conference evening networking reception on Thursday 9 July. The remaining accepted abstracts/cases will be displayed during the conference as digital posters. All accepted abstracts will be published in BMJ Paediatrics Open (N.B. only abstracts will be published; case reports will not be published).
Deadline to submit: Sunday 26 April, midnight BST.
Notification of application status: w/c 4 May.
Interested in sponsorship opportunities?
Contact our events team to find out more: [email protected]
Pricing
Please note that tickets are fully booked. If you wish to join the waitlist for returns, please email [email protected].
Earlybird rates are in place from Friday 27 February 2026, 9am GMT until Monday 1 June, 9am GMT:
- 3 day ticket (pre-conference day & main meeting): Consultants (earlybird) - £600
- 3 day ticket (pre-conference day & main meeting): Resident doctors/nurses/AHPs (earlybird) - £450
- 2 day ticket (main meeting only): Consultants (earlybird) - £475
- 2 day ticket (main meeting only): Resident doctors/nurses/AHPs (earlybird) - £350
Standard rates (10-15% higher than the earlybird rates) will be in place from 1 June 2026.
Lunch and refreshments will be provided on Thursday 9-Friday 10 July.
Please email [email protected] if you need to pay via invoice through your organisation.
Registration
Please note that registration will close on Wednesday 1 July 2026, 9:00 BST or sooner if tickets sell out.
CPD/CME
The conference is accredited by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the European Union of Medical Specialists and the Royal College of Nursing. 6 credits are available for the pre-conference workshop day on Wednesday 8 July. 11.5 credits are available for the conference on Thursday 9-Friday 10 July.
Recording
Please note that the conference will be recorded, where speakers give consent for their sessions to be recorded, with the recording shared with conference delegates for a short period post-conference. The recording will be shared within three weeks of the conference taking place and will be available to view for at least three months. The recording will cover all conference sessions - plenaries and both breakout rooms - breakout sessions 1 and 2.
Travel authorisation
International colleagues are reminded that they need to have appropriate visitor authorisation in place (where needed) – i.e., Visa (https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa) or ETA: (https://www.gov.uk/eta). N.B. ETAs came into effect a year ago and colleagues based in Europe, the US, Canada, Australia etc need to obtain one. It takes up to 3 days to receive approval.
Hotels in the local area
There are many hotels in the local area including:
You might also want to check the travel site https://www.booking.com/ (enter Russell Square or Kings Cross St Pancras, London as the location to find the best rates in the area). For reference, the conference venue is BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9JP.
