Top UK Cardiologists
We provide world-class specialist care and the very highest standards of patient service to all our patients both NHS and private in the South West of England. Our ‘one-stop-shop’ operating model means patients have access to a comprehensive range of services under one roof to reduce the need for repeat visits to different hospital departments. From consultation & diagnostic tests through to cath lab procedures as well as clinics focusing on preventing and screening heart disease – we have it all covered.
We are led by the entire team of consultant cardiologists from University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, they are a multi-disciplinary team with expertise in managing every type of heart disease. Our cardiologists are all renowned in their respective areas of clinical practice with reputations synonymous with excellence at both a national and international level. They have all completed their training in pre-eminent centres in the UK and abroad and are among the best cardiologists in the UK.
Our Patients
Peninsula Heart Clinic is designed to offer services primarily for NHS patients to help lower NHS waiting times, but also has the capacity to treat patients that wish to self-pay or use their private medical insurance.
The comfort of our patients and visitors is a priority. We provide a quiet room for patients and their relatives, translation services, free wifi, a car drop-off area outside our main entrance, freshly brewed tea & bean-to-cup coffee, as well as a range of hotel services for patients having a cath lab procedure: newspapers, magazines, dressing robes, slippers and eye masks. In addition, we have three private patient rooms offering ensuite facilities. Each of our private rooms is equipped with smart TV, quality bed linen, bathroom towels, luxury toiletries as well as a bespoke menu of quality food & beverages prepared by our in-house catering department.
We provide a safe, friendly and comfortable environment for patients and their families at what we recognise is a vulnerable time in their lives. Our services are designed and delivered to suit the patient, never forgetting that each person is individual and has specific emotional as well as clinical needs.
Our Partnership
Peninsula Heart Clinic is an innovative partnership between Derriford Hospital and University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust and an independent company called Regent’s Park Healthcare. The partnership between the two organisations’ ensures that all patients, both NHS & Private receive the best-of-both-worlds: world-class specialist care and the very highest standard of service, together with the confidence provided from being located on an NHS site with its safety-net of services on hand. Regent's Park Healthcare deliver NHS cardiology care to below the tariff price, savings that can be re-invested into their frontline services.
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide world-class cardiac services using a specialist model that leverages innovation, the best-in-knowledge clinical pathways and smarter operating processes.
Our specialist model re-engineers healthcare delivery and creates value in several ways.
Scale, standardisation and repetition of best practices increases operational efficiency. Staff are allowed to focus on doing a few things well as opposed to being stretched over multiple conditions. Concentrating efforts in our single specialty leads to a virtuous circle whereby we accumulate experience, improve safety, reduce cost and ultimately deliver better patient outcomes.
Our Leadership Team
We are a team of top-tier healthcare managers, doctors, scientists and allied health professionals who are committed to transforming care, expanding access, improving quality and reducing costs.
We take huge pride in our twenty-year track record of delivering cardiac care, through excellent service, efficient operations management, well trained staff, and uncompromising professionalism.
Care Quality Commission
Peninsula Heart Clinic is fully registered as an acute private hospital by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and bound by the Health and Social Care Act 2008. The CQC is the independent regulator of health and social care, hospitals and nursing homes. We received our CQC registration on 28/06/2019, and our Provider ID is 1-6906229611.
BUPA Quality Accreditation
BUPA healthcare quality inspectors have inspected Peninsula Heart Clinic and been awarded healthcare quality excellent. This means Peninsula Heart Clinic is recognised by BUPA as a cardiac centre across its network of facilities. Peninsula Heart Clinic is also accredited by all the other major and minor private medical insurance companies.
Medical Advisory Committee
Peninsula Heart Clinic has a Medical Advisory Committee (MAC) to ensure we achieve and maintain medical excellence across all our services. All medical practitioners at Peninsula Heart Clinic are part of the MAC which offers guidance and advice on all areas of clinical practice and meets at regular quarterly intervals through the course of the year. The MAC has a robust clinical governance strategy with appointed leads for clinical governance and clinical audit. The MAC also reports into the University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust Clinical Governance committees. This ensures robust controls are always in place for the quaility and effectiveness of care we deliver.
Clinical Outcomes
Peninsula Heart Clinic is proud of the quality of healthcare it provides and its outcome data. As part of our ongoing commitment to quality standards in healthcare, we contribute to various databases including; The Private Healthcare Information Network, National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death and National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research. We also support external quality benchmarking from the following societies: British Cardiovascular Intervention Society, British Society of Echocardiography and British Cardiovascular Society.
