Integrated Cardiovascular System

Clinicians are working together across the partnership to develop proposals to improve outcomes for patients with heart disease. Trust boards at two major teaching hospitals – University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) and Barts Health NHS Trust, and the senior team at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust have shown their commitment to a proposed new specialist Heart Centre embedded within a partnership-wide cardiovascular system. A joint letter of commitment from UCLH and Barts Health can be downloaded here

If approved – following a public, staff and stakeholder engagement process – specialist cardiovascular services will move from UCLH’s Heart Hospital to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in late 2014. Also supported by Queen Mary’s, University of London and University College London, this development will create a clinical and academic centre of excellence that will save lives, improve outcomes for patients, deliver better value for the taxpayer and contribute to our global competitiveness in life sciences. For full details of the seven clinical proposals go to:

For full details of the seven clinical proposals go to:

• Cardiac Rhythm Management
• Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Cardiovascular Imaging
• Congenital Heart Disease
• Heart Failure
• Inherited Cardiac Disease
• Percutaneous Coronary Intervention