Hello and welcome to our exiting new website, the home of the Congenital Cardiac Nurses Association. The CCNA, previously known as the Paediatric Cardiac Nurses Association (PCNA) has approximately 250 members from around the UK and Southern Ireland, as well as a few members from around the globe. In November 2007 the association re-launched with the new name ‘Congenital Cardiac Nurses Association’ to reflect changes occurring in practice and to recognise the growing number of children that are surviving into adulthood. It is hoped that this will also encourage further networking and collaboration with our ‘Grown-Up Congenital Heart Disease’ colleagues. Membership of the association has consequently been expanded to promote the engagement of other healthcare practitioners working in the speciality. The aims of the CCNA are:

To act as a discussion forum for health care practitioners engaged or interested in congenital cardiothoracic practice
To facilitate communication interprofessionally as well as between congenital cardiac centres, nationally and internationally
To promote dissemination of knowledge
To act as a body representing the voice of congenital cardiac nurses throughout the UK and Southern Ireland
To promote the welfare of the child, young person and their family within the sphere of congenital cardiac nursing