Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a medium size hospital serving the people living in Milton Keynes and the surrounding areas. The hospital has approximately 500 inpatient beds and provides a broad range of general medical and surgical services, including A&E, for over 300,000 people every year. The trust serves a relatively young but rapidly expanding population and provides services for all medical, surgical and child health emergency admissions.
In addition to providing general acute services Milton Keynes Hospital increasingly provides more specialist services, including cancer, cardiology and oral surgery and has the responsibility for treating premature babies born locally and in the surrounding areas.
The cardiology unit is self-contained, comprising of an outpatient clinic, 8-bed Coronary Care Unit with cardiac monitoring facilities and a procedure room, Cardiology Ward, catheter lab and day-case unit, non invasive diagnostic testing (ECG, 24 hr ECG monitoring, exercise tolerance testing, echocardiography, pacing & ICD clinics). All elective & some urgent diagnostic angiography procedures are undertaken here, with patients referred to Oxford for intervention & surgery.
The Consultant Cardiologists here provide GIM, general cardiology, and the following sub-specialties:
- Dr Attila Kardos (imaging)
- Dr Cliona Kenny
- Dr Sudipta Chattopadhyay
- Dr Laszlo Halmai
- Dr Veerendra Rathore
- Dr Julian Ormerod
- Dr Harry Boardman