Arrhythmia services are a specialist branch of cardiovascular (heart) care. Arrhythmia services focus on diagnosing and treating problems with the heart's rhythm. These problems are known as arrhythmias.
Electrophysiology and Cardiac rhythm management (EP/CRM) are part of the cardiovascular services provided by the Heart, Lung and Critical Care (HLCC) Clinical Group, the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK.
On this page
- Heart Rhythm Centre
- Inpatients and outpatients
- Electrophysiology and devices
- The Heart Rhythm Centre team
- Research and innovation
- Contact us
- Useful links and resources
Heart Rhythm Centre
The Heart Rhythm Centre (HRC) at Royal Brompton, Harefield and St Thomas’ hospitals is one of the largest facilities of its kind in the UK. It is a national and international tertiary referral centre providing highly specialised care for patients with arrhythmias.
We are part of the largest heart and lung centre in the UK and one of the largest in Europe. Our service provides care delivered by leading experts in the latest facilities across three convenient locations – Royal Brompton Hospital in Chelsea, West London; Harefield Hospital near Uxbridge; and St Thomas’ Hospital in central London.
Together, we perform more than 4,000 procedures each year across our three hospitals.
We treat outpatients and inpatients with different types of arrhythmia. We work closely with our colleagues in paediatric cardiology, adult congenital heart disease and transplantation cardiology to provide seamless patient care from childhood to adulthood across all sites.
We have a dedicated, integrated team of specialist consultants, clinical nurse specialists, an arrhythmia pharmacist and catheter laboratory clinical scientists working together across the three hospitals. Find out more about the arrhythmia team.
Inpatients and outpatients
Our teams specialise in treating patients with cardiac and lung conditions. Our teams specialise in treating patients with cardiac and lung conditions. Treatment takes place in the context of a wider cardiology and cardiothoracic facility with expertise in non-invasive investigative procedures and highly specialised support services. Specialist echocardiography, cardiac physiology, cardiac CT & MRI are an integrated part of this service and are available on site.
The centre has designated inpatient facilities, with specific provision on Paul Wood Ward and York Ward for arrhythmia patients at Royal Brompton Hospital, in the Acute Cardiac Care Unit at Harefield Hospital and within the cardiology wards at St Thomas’ Hospital.
Outpatient clinics for patients take place at all sites. We also have one of the UK’s largest follow-up services for patients with implantable devices.
Electrophysiology and devices
We use advanced technology to treat patients with complex arrhythmias, with high success rates, working closely with the paediatric cardiology, adult congenital heart disease and cardiac transplant units to provide a specialist arrhythmia service.
Our facilities include:
- 7 purpose-built cardiac electrophysiology labs, two hybrid suites and an XMRI intervention suite equipped with state-of-the-art technology, including advanced 3-D mapping and navigation systems, to understand the cause, establish diagnosis and determine treatment of arrhythmias.
- A dedicated invasive laboratory that uses magnetic navigation (stereotaxis) technology, a procedure that uses two powerful magnetic fields to move a soft catheter inside the patient’s bodies with great precision and minimal risk, often used in patients with congenital heart disease.
- One of the largest device implantation services in the country, including for pacemakers (including conduction system and leadless pacing), ICDs and devices for cardiac resynchronisation (CRT), of which we were involved in the early development.
We have specialist expertise in device therapy for patients with congenital and/or paediatric heart disease.
We also provide a regional device extraction service using state-of-the-art laser therapy.
The Heart Rhythm Centre team
Our medical team is made up of 35 consultant electrophysiologists across our 3 hospitals, 16 arrhythmia nurse specialists and more than 50 specialist cardiac physiologists. We are a nationally recognised medical and physiology training centre for cardiac EP and devices. Our clinicians are supported by 3 site-specific administrative networks of service managers, general managers and administration teams.
Consultants
Dr Jonathan Behar, consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist, St Thomas’ Hospital
Dr Zhong Chen, consultant cardiologist, Harefield, Ashford and St Peters Hospitals
Dr Jonathan Clague, consultant cardiologist, Royal Brompton Hospital
Dr Andrew Cox, consultant cardiologist, Harefield and Wexham/Frimley Park Hospitals
Dr Michael Cooklin, consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist, St Thomas’ Hospital - Michael has retired from Clinical Practice
Prof Sabine Ernst, consultant cardiologist, Royal Brompton Hospital
Dr Will Eysenck, consultant cardiologist, Royal Brompton and Lewisham Hospitals
Dr Davide Fabriccatore, consultant cardiologist, Royal Brompton Hospital
Dr John Foran, consultant cardiologist, Royal Brompton Hospital
Prof Jaswinder Gill, consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist, St Thomas’ Hospital
Dr Shouvik Haldar, consultant cardiologist, Harefield and Royal Brompton Hospital
Dr Wajid Hussain, consultant cardiologist, Harefield and Royal Brompton Hospital
Dr Julian Jarman, consultant cardiologist, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals
Dr David Jones, consultant cardiologist, Harefield and Royal Brompton Hospital
Dr Rebecca Lane, consultant cardiologist, Harefield Hospital
Dr Katarzyna Malaczynska-Rajpold, consultant cardiologist, Royal Brompton and Lister Hospitals
Dr Vias Markides, consultant cardiologist, Royal Brompton Hospital
Dr Mark Mason, consultant cardiologist, Harefield Hospital
Dr Chris Miles, consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist, St Thomas’ Hospital
Dr Mumin Noor, consultant cardiologist, Harefield and Epsom Hospitals
Dr Mark Norman, consultant cardiologist, Harefield and Frimley Park Hospitals
Prof Mark O’Neill, consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist, St Thomas’ Hospital
Prof Aldo Rinaldi, consultant cardiologist & Professor of Electrophysiology and Devices, St Thomas’ Hospital
Dr Tushar Salukhe, consultant cardiologist, Royal Brompton Hospital, Northwick Park Hospital
Dr Anoop Shetty, consultant cardiologist and clinical lead for electrophysiology, St Thomas’ Hospital
Dr Iain Sim, consultant cardiologist, Harefield and Wexham/Frimley Park Hospitals
Dr Jan Till, consultant paediatric electrophysiologist, Royal Brompton Hospital
Dr Haseeb Valli, consultant cardiologist, Harefield Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital
Dr John Whitaker, clinical senior lecturer and honorary consultant in cardiology and electrophysiology, St Thomas’ Hospital
Dr Matthew Wright, consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist, St Thomas’ Hospital
Prof Tom Wong, consultant cardiologist, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, Ealing Hospital
Dr Leonie Wong, consultant paediatric electrophysiologist, Royal Brompton Hospital
Visiting Consultant Cardiologists
Dr. Cheuk Chan, consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist, Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
Dr Bruna DiNubila, consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist, Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Dr Roy Jogiya, consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist, Kingston & Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
Dr. Conn Sugihara, consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist, Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Clinical nurse specialists
Royal Brompton Hospital
Clinical nurse specialists for EP/ablation and devices:
- Ciara Brennan
- Amy Burrel
- Beatrice Horea
- Harriet Fisher
Harefield Hospital
Clinical nurse specialists for EP/ablation:
- Nicky Clarke
- Sue King
- Rose McCarthy
- Peng Zhang
Clinical nurse specialists for devices:
- Nikki Bordeaux
- Nicky Margerison
- Christopher Watson
St Thomas’ Hospital
Clinical nurse specialists:
- Morveen Smith
- Stephen Walker
- Olivia Heasman
- Marco Verzosa
- Ioanna Mangina
Arrhythmia pharmacist
Carol Hayes
Research and innovation
The Heart Rhythm Centre, in collaboration with the National Heart & Lung Institute (NHLI), Imperial College, is a major research facility for arrhythmia. As part of Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, we also have a close relationship with King's College London.
The service provides national and international specialised training for electrophysiologists at all levels of training.
Find out more about our research and innovation.
Contact us
Harefield Hospital
Arrhythmia (EP/ablation)
Phone: 01895 828 979
Email: gstt.harefieldhrc@nhs.net
Devices (pacemakers/ICDs)
Phone: 01895 826 580 or 01895 828 523
Email: gstt.devicenursesHH@nhs.net
Royal Brompton Hospital
Phone: 020 7351 8364
Email: gstt.epnursesrbh@nhs.net
St Thomas’ Hospital
Phone: 020 7188 9198
Email: gstt.arrhythmianurses@nhs.net
Useful links and resources
Arrhythmia Alliance
Arrhythmia Alliance is a coalition of charities, patient groups and healthcare professionals working together to improve the diagnosis, treatment and quality of life for those affected by arrythmias.
Website: www.arrhythmiaalliance.org.uk
British Heart Foundation Heart Helpline
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) Heart Helpline can help with lots of queries and concerns about heart and circulatory diseases, and their risk factors.
Phone: 0808 802 1234 - freephone
Email: hearthelpline@bhf.org.uk