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Cardiology
About
Our cardiology service uses cutting-edge clinical innovations to treat and prevent heart conditions and offers a full range of investigations, treatments and management for cardiac conditions. We also provide cardiac assessment and treatment for pregnant women and patients with end-stage kidney disease. We offer services at Hammersmith, St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospitals.
Our cardiology service at Hammersmith Hospital is one of London’s eight heart attack centres, providing specialist 24-hour emergency care and treatment for anyone suspected of having a heart attack in the west London area.
General cardiology outpatient clinics at Hammersmith Hospital are held three days per week with sub specialty clinics for heart failure and complex arrhythmias. All clinics are supported by a cardiac physiological measurement service, providing a one-stop service for patients.
Charing Cross Hospital runs a unique rapid access cardiology clinic each weekday morning and treats patients with chest pain, suspected heart failure or arrhythmia.
Sub specialties
- Community cardiology service
- Heart attack centre
- Inherited cardiac conditions
- Lipids
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Syncope
- Transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Conditions and treatment
Our cardiology service treats the following conditions:
- Lipidology
- Inherited cardiac conditions
- Syncope
- Cardio-renal
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Arrhythmia and electrophysiology
- Cardiac prevention and rehabilitation
- Cardiac pacemaker and implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD)
- Community cardiology
Additional information
Clinical trials and research
We are at the forefront of cardiac interventions including p7day heart monitor Hammersmith Hospitalercutaneous heart valve treatments, innovations in electrophysiology, new forms of cardiac imaging and the investigation of syncope. The International Centre for Circulatory Health (ICCH) at St Mary’s Hospital facilitates the translation of cutting-edge cardiovascular discoveries to patient care. This enables us to offer the latest new treatments to our patients as early as possible. ICCH is a collaborative venture between the Trust and the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London.
Further online resources
- NHS Choices – coronary heart disease
- NHS Choices – causes of high blood pressure
- British Cardiovascular Society
- British Heart Foundation
Patient information leaflets
- Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring - Hammersmith Hospital
- Ambulatory holter monitor - Charing Cross Hospital
- Ambulatory holter monitor - Hammersmith Hospital
- Ambulatory holter monitor - St Mary's Hospital
- Aortic stenosis and Balloon aortic valvuloplasty
- Electrocardiogram (ECG) - Charing Cross Hospital
- Electrocardiogram (ECG) - Hammersmith Hospital
- Electrocardiogram (ECG) - St Mary's Hospital
- Exercise test - Charing Cross Hospital
- Exercise test - Hammersmith Hospital
- Exercise test - St Mary's Hospital
- Implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD)/cardiac resynchronisation therapy with defibrillator (CRTD)
- Pulmonary exercise test (MV02 test) - St Mary's Hospital
- Seven day heart monitor - Charing Cross Hospital
- Seven day heart monitor - Hammersmith Hospital
- Seven day heart monitor - St Mary's Hospital
Contact
- Outpatients appointments
- 020 3313 5000
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Read the full storyNew care pathways to improve urgent access to specialist services
Patients with cardiac related chest pain or who need urgent renal or haematology care will benefit from improved access to services through the introduction of two new ‘direct entry’ urgent care pathways at Hammersmith Hospital.
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Read the full storyImperial College Healthcare NHS Trust seeks feedback on proposals to improve care pathways
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is asking patients, carers, local residents and other stakeholders about clinician-led proposals to improve care pathways for patients with chest pain or who need urgent specialist care.
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Read the full storyPatients receive innovative new heart pacemaker
Cardiovascular patients at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust are amongst a handful in the UK to be fitted with an innovative new wireless mini-pacemaker.
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I'd like to express my admiration and respect for all those involved in my care when I was brought in by ambulance to your heart attack centre. To my shame, I don't remember the names of those who introduced themselves to me, but their care, respect and professionalism allowed me to put complete faith in them. While for me this was a huge crisis, it was never a drama. I now understand that my angioplasty with five stents was not as straightforward as was hoped, but the atmosphere in the lab was calm throughout. I spent two more days on the ward in Hammersmith, and everyone I came into contact treated me with care and dignity, from the paramedics to the surgical team, the porters, ward staff and caterers.
Pete Treadwell
I must register my satisfaction with the very high quality treatment I received in the cardiac unit at Hammersmith Hospital. It was clear to me that meticulous care had been taken not only in your surgical procedures but also, for example, in the constant cleaning of the ward and in the provision of decent meals. To merely say thanks seems inadequate.
Roy McCluskey
