Spire Healthcare: Private cardiology and heart care in the UK

Spire Healthcare hospitals provide the highest standards of private healthcare at their 37 hospitals located throughout the UK. With over 25 years of experience, their highly trained clinical and support staff are dedicated to looking after you.

Spire Healthcare hospitals continually strive to improve the hospital experience and clinical outcome for patients, publishing annual clinical outcome measures including rates for MRSA infection, for unplanned readmissions to hospital and for unplanned returns to the operating theatre. You can check out key patient satisfaction measures at each Spire Healthcare hospital and find out how Spire Healthcare keep MRSA rates so low in its 37 hospitals.

They also measure overall health improvement following heart treatment for each Spire hospital.

Spire Healthcare hospitals are registered with the Care Quality Commission in England, the Care Commission in Scotland, and the Care Standards Inspectorate in Wales.

Cardiac care at Spire Healthcare

Spire Healthcare offers a dedicated cardiac service, for all your heart’s needs.

High quality, comprehensive cardiac care

Spire offers a range of tests and scans, procedures and heart operations performed by cardiac nurses and technicians, consultant cardiologists and cardiac surgeons.

Experienced cardiac specialists

Spire's experienced cardiac teams will ensure your visit to us is as convenient and comfortable as possible. They will provide advice and support at every stage and will explain what heart tests they are going to do, how long they will take and what you can expect.

Convenient cardiac care appointments

Spire offers appointments at times to suit you, with early and late appointment times available. They’re open to everyone. If you don’t have insurance they offer one-off private treatment, often with a fixed price agreed in advance.

Results

They understand how important it is to report your results quickly and efficiently. If you have been referred to the cardiac service by your GP a consultant cardiologist will analyse your test results and send them to your GP within 48 hours of your appointment.

The heart is a complex organ and as a result there are a number of areas where your heart that can be damaged:

• Coronary heart disease
  
• Angina
  
• Heart valve problems
  
• Cardiac arrhythmia
  

Heart tests and scans from Spire

Spire Healthcare hospitals offer a range of diagnostic tests and investigations to assess the health of your heart. 

Blood and blood pressure tests for cardiac health

• Blood tests to assess heart disease risk
  
• Blood pressure test and 24 hour blood pressure monitor 

Diagnostic tests

A number of other diagnostic tests can be conducted to diagnose angina and assess the workings of the heart, including ECG, echocardiogram, stress test, coronary angiography and heart scanning:

• Electrocardiogram (ECG)
  
• Exercise ECG
  
• 24/48 hour ECG monitoring or event recorder
  
• Echocardiogram
  
• Transoesophageal Echocardiogram (TOE)
  
• Contrast echocardiogram
  
• Stress echocardiogram
  
• Cardiomemo recording
  
• Cardiac CT
  
• Cardiac MRI
  

Where can I get treatment?

Self-pay treatment

You can choose to have one-off private treatment at a Spire Healthcare private hospital for most types of operations, procedures and tests. You’ll be seen quickly and receive your treatment at a convenient time.

As a self-pay patient, you don’t need private health insurance. Spire Healthcare will give you a single, all-inclusive fixed price for your treatment.

Benefits of one-off private treatment with Spire Healthcare:

• Quality-assured medical and nursing care

• Treatment in a clean and comfortable private hospital

• Choice of appointment times

• Tour of the hospital before admission

• Continuous care from your consultant

• Pre-admission information about your procedure

• Written discharge guidance

• Private room with en-suite bath or shower, if you’re staying overnight

• Healthy vegetarian and snack options for all meals

• Use of a phone* ,TV and radio in your room

• Visitors at any time

• Free tea and coffee for your visitors

• Meals for visitors*

• Free parking for you and your visitors (subject to availability)
  

* You’ll need to pay extra for this

To request an information pack, a guide price for any one-off private treatment or to discuss your personal situation please call your local Spire Healthcare hospital or use our online enquiry form.

Contact details

Spire Healthcare - please call your local Spire Healthcare hospital

Email:       Online enquiry form 

Website:  www.spirehealthcare.com

Ratings and reviews on Spire Healthcare hospitals

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