The ACHD Team at Oxford University Hospitals has specialist skills in all areas of ACHD, and delivers expert care at the Oxford Heart Centre to patients with complex heart disease.
Our patients are either new to the service, or transfer to us from Paediatric Cardiology.
We provide specialist outpatient clinics in Oxford, as well as inpatient care for ACHD patients on the wards.
We also run outreach clinics at several locations, including:
Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading
Great Western Hospital, Swindon
Northampton General Hospital
Milton Keynes General Hospital
St Helier Hospital, Jersey.
We contribute to clinics in:
Pulmonary Hypertension
maternal cardiologydisease of the aorta including Marfan syndrome (see link)
Turners syndrome
and a transition clinic for child patients moving to the adult service.
We work closely with the Inherited Heart Muscle Disease Clinic and Cardiac Geneticists.
All complex congenital surgery and intervention is undertaken in Southampton. We are part of the Thames Valley and Wessex Congenital Heart Disease Network:
Thames Valley and Wessex Congenital Heart Disease Network
Our team
Consultants
Dr Katie Francis (Clinical Lead)
Consultant CardiologistDr Joanna Lim
Consultant CardiologistDr Panagiota Mitropoulou
Consultant CardiologistDr Elizabeth Orchard
Consultant Cardiologist
Specialist Nurses
Emma Weingart
Advanced Nurse Practitioner and Lead NurseAngela Austen
Specialist Nurse PractitionerRebecca Ross
Specialist Nurse Practitioner
Congenital Imaging Consultants
Dr Myerson
Dr Kelion
Dr Newton
Administration
Panagiota Florou
Vanessa Inness
Abigail Conaty
What to expect
Your first visit
On arrival at Oxford Heart Centre, please check in at Reception.
A nurse will take some observations, including your pulse, blood pressure (BP) and oxygen saturations.
You may have some tests, including an ECG and an Echocardiogram, and then see one of the doctors.
(It may not be possible to offer you an Echocardiogram on the same day as your cardiology consultation. Please contact us if you wish to discuss this.)
The doctors will talk to you and examine you, and then discuss your diagnosis and any treatment that may be required.
The discussion will cover important life issues, such as work, travel, physical activity and pregnancy - please ask as many questions as you want.
Other tests that may be required include:
Cardiac MRI
Cardiac CT
Cardiac Catheter
24 hour tape
Six-minute walk test
Related clinics
Oxford University Hospitals runs other specialist clinics with a strong focus on ACHD.
Maternal Cardiology
Fortnightly at the John Radcliffe Hospital Women's Centre, providing care for pregnant women with heart disease.
The team includes:
Dr Elizabeth Orchard (cardiology)
Miss Catherine Greenwood (obstetrics)
Dr Lucy Mackillop (obstetric medicine)
Dr Lauren Green, (obstetrics)
Dr Ruth Curry (obstetrics)
Dr Anika Smith (obstetric anaesthetics)
Pulmonary Hypertension.
This clinic runs monthly and is part of a regional specialised service, in combination with the Royal Brompton Hospital.
Specialist aortic clinics
These clinics are for patients with diseases of the aorta including Marfan syndrome, Loeys Dietz syndrome and coarctation of the aorta.
The team includes:
Dr Alex Pitcher
Dr Ed Blair (clinical geneticist)
Professor Tonia Vincent
Contact us
ACHD Specialist Nurses
Email: ACHD&PHT.Nurse@ouh.nhs.uk
Tel: 01865 740412 Monday to Friday 8.00am - 4.00pm
ACHD Administration Team
Email: achd.admin@ouh.nhs.uk
Tel: 01865 221322
Links
Investigations
Our wards
Please visit 'Inpatients'
