Our services
Cardiothoracic surgery
About
Our cardiothoracic surgery unit provides surgery for a range of cardiac and thoracic conditions affecting the heart, lungs and chest. The treatments our clinics offer include coronary bypass both on and off by pass machine, aortic and mitral valve repair or replacement and lobectomy.
Our cardiothoracic surgery unit is based at Hammersmith Hospital, allowing co-location and close working with our interventional cardiology and renal centres.
Contact
- Outpatients appointments
- 020 3313 5000
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Your inpatient stay Inpatients
You may need to stay at one of our hospitals to have a procedure or receive treatment, either overnight as an inpatient or during the day as a day patient. Ahead of your inpatient stay, you will usually need to attend a pre-operative assessment appointment.
Find out more about how you can reschedule or cancel your inpatient stay, pre-operative assessments, what to bring with you when you come to hospital and much more.
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Read the full storyTrust awarded £1.9m for state-of-the-art surgical and imaging theatre
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Read the full storyNew Care Quality Commission report recognises improvement while overall rating is unchanged at ‘requires improvement’
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is committed to making further improvements in response to the latest CQC report on the Trust, published today, Wednesday 21 February.
The cardiac team were so caring and knowledgeable and explained everything to us in detail so we understood the procedures Mum was having. The staff in intensive care were truly amazing with aftercare until she was well enough to go to the ward, so thank you so much for your excellent teamwork.
Rita
