Services available

General cardiology clinics are held by each consultant together with:

• rapid access chest pain clinic
• heart failure clinic
• cardiac rehabilitation service.

A range of cardiology tests are carried out within the department including:

• ECG  - A graphic recording of cardiac electrical activities
• exercise tolerance test – A comprehensive recording of ECG’s along with blood pressure, when patients are walking on a treadmill
• twenty-four hour ECG (patient returns the next day to have it removed) – A continuous electronic reading of the ECG for 24 hours
• twenty-four hour blood pressure (patient returns the next day to have it removed) – intermittent recording of the blood pressure for 24 hours
• cardiomemo – intermittent or continuous recording of the ECG for a few days/weeks
• echocardiogram – ultrasound images of the heart and big arteries
• transoesophageal echocardiogram – ultrasound image of the heart recorded from the oesophagus
• dobutamine stress echocardiogram – a series of ultrasound images of heart recorded when the patient is intravenously infused with dobutamine which puts the heart under stress
• transcranial doppler – an ultrasound recording of blood flow in a big artery in the brain.

Respiratory function is also situated within the cardiology department.

Making an appointment

We hold outpatient clinics on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and alternate Wednesdays in the main outpatient department. Thursdays clinic is held in the cardiology department. Appointments are made by referral from your GP.

The rapid access chest pain clinic is held on Monday and Friday mornings, Tuesday and Thursday afternoons in the cardiology department. Appointments are made by referral from your GP.

Heart support group meetings are held on the 3rd Wednesday of the month (no meeting in August).

Arrhythmia clinics take place on Monday afternoons and alternate Wednesday mornings.  These are run by Dr. Oliver Segal and Dr. Mehul Dhinoja.  

How to contact us

To change or cancel a clinic appointment please ring the outpatient department on 020 8510 5544.

Secretary to Dr Kurbaan
Sally Green
tel: 020 8510 5084

Key staff

Dr Arvinder Kurbaan
Lead consultant cardiologist with a special interest in coronary artery disease, angioplasty and stenting

Dr Timothy Bowker
Consultant cardiologist with a special interest in heart failure

Dr Han Bin Xiao
Consultant cardiologist with a special interest in general cardiology, echocardiography (including stress echo and contrast echo), electrocardiography and myocardial disease

Dr Mehul Dhinoja
Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist, Arrhythmia Service, Department of Cardiology

Dr Oliver Segal
Consultant Cardiologist, The Heart Hospital