First Patient Seen at Peninsula Heart Clinic Delighted with Treatment
- ohri15
- Jul 2, 2019
- 1 min read
In February 2019, we announced a great new partnership with Regent’s Park Healthcare (RPH) to reduce waiting times for specialist cardiology treatment. RPH has built and just opened a specialist cardiology centre, called the Peninsula Heart Clinic (PHC) on the Derriford hospital campus.
PHC’s first patient, Pamela Robertson, was absolutely delighted with her treatment: “Everyone was so nice; they made a scary experience less scary. This was my fourth procedure and I would be very comfortable coming back here in the future as everyone was so lovely.”
RPH Chief Executive, Dr Anil Ohri and PHC General Manager, David Smith from Regent’s Park Healthcare commemorated the occasion with flowers and gifts.
The new facility is expected to treat around 1,500 NHS patients each year, seeing those requiring basic angiograms, straight-forward day-case Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) as well as patients requiring cardiac devices. In a partnership arrangement, the new centre offers services for NHS patients three days per week initially. It is staffed by RPH cath lab and recovery staff, with consultants from University Hospitals Plymouth carrying out the procedures.
Similar cardiology public-private partnerships are running elsewhere in the country but in most areas, this work is outsourced to an off-site facility. The NHS retains control in this arrangement using a private facility situated on an NHS site, building on Plymouth’s status as a centre of excellence for cardiothoracic services.
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