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Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital is an 'Outstanding' rated specialist Trust and one of the leading specialist heart and chest centres in the country.
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Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital is a twice 'outstanding' rated trust and one of the largest specialist heart and chest hospitals in the UK, providing specialist services in cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology and respiratory medicine.

28/04/2026

In a year when we are celebrating 75 years of children’s heart surgery in the city we would like to introduce you to our Adult Congenital Heart Disease team. The North West CHD service is delivered by the Liverpool Partnership (Alder Hey, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool Women's University Hospital and Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital). LHCH is where all adult congenital surgery and interventional procedures are performed.

Dr Damien Cullington, Consultant Adult Congenital Cardiologist (ACHD) and ACHD Clinical Lead explained:
“LHCH is one of the top three hospitals in the country for delivering the highest volume of operations and procedures for ACHD. Most inpatient care is also provided at LHCH along with Manchester Royal Infirmary. Outpatient services are run also at Wrexham, Manchester and Blackpool.

“The service moved to Liverpool, from Manchester, in September 2018. The team is based in Liverpool to ensure that consultant led care can be provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. At first this was a big change for patients as about two thirds of patients who originally went to Manchester now come here.”

“The service has steadily grown over the last 8 years. It’s taken time to establish the service and ensure its running as smoothly as we would like. Since the service started we have expanded the consultant workforce so we can see more patients. It’s become more streamlined and better organised.”

“We have a vision for the development of the ‘North West Congenital Heart Disease Centre’ at LHCH. A bespoke, dedicated department where patients can come as a day case, have their appointment and all their diagnostic tests on the same day.”

You can read more on our website in the latest instalment of ‘Meet the Specialist’ which focuses on the role of the team, their achievements and hopes for the future.

17/04/2026

As we start the new financial year, we look back on the work of LHCH Charity during a successful 2025/26. Thanks to LHCH Charity, we’ve been able to introduce a series of pioneering new treatments, advanced technology, and staff training to enhance the patient experience at LHCH.

Last year, a new Limix Laser for laser-assisted lung surgery was introduced, thanks to LHCH Charity and the Marina Daglish Charity. This is a major development for patients with complex or previously inoperable tumours.

A new ultrasound machine to allow clinicians to more easily identify veins in people with Cystic Fibrosis was purchased for our CF team. This makes blood draws and iv line insertion significantly faster and less painful whilst enabling faster delivery of antibiotics.

With help from the Sir Ken Dodd Charitable Trust, LHCH Charity also provided a robotic console to train our thoracic surgeons in robotic lung surgery. Robotic procedures offer our patients faster, safer operations and a shorter stay in hospital.

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank LHCH Charity, and their supporters, for helping us to make a real difference in improving patient care.

05/04/2026

We'd like to wish our patients, families, staff, NHS colleagues and all those who are celebrating a very Happy Easter!

Thank you to all our colleagues who are working to care for patients over this bank holiday weekend.

02/04/2026

Please share – industrial action at our hospitals

Industrial action is taking place at our hospitals from 7 - 13 April 2026

We'll contact you if your appointment needs to be rescheduled. If you haven't heard from us, please attend as planned.

A&E remains very busy - if your concern is less urgent, please use NHS 111, your local pharmacy or GP first: https://111.nhs.uk

31/03/2026

We are pleased to share that LHCH is leading the way for recruitment to COSIRA-II as one of the highest recruiters in the world.

This is thanks to a big effort from our percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) research team led by Dr Joel Giblett, Principal Investigator and Consultant Cardiologist and Mike Sionas, Research Nurse. The COSIRA II team is pushing the boundaries in this rigorous study of a novel treatment for refractory angina.

Refractory angina significantly impacts quality of life, and the research team are striving to offer hope to people who live with this difficult condition. COSIRA-II is a research study investigating the shockwave reducer versus sham placebo in refractory angina.

LHCH is an experienced centre for implantation of a shockwave reducer which have improved symptoms and quality of life for patients from across the North West. It is hoped that this study will provide further validation of this treatment and provide important study results to shape future care.

Dr John Hung, Consultant Cardiologist spoke of this:

"Patients with difficult to control angina can really struggle to get their symptoms under control. This limits their activities and prevents them from doing what they want to do. We are committed to working with patients, to offer optimal medical treatment, revascularisation when needed, and now other more novel treatments like the shockwave reducer to improve their daily lives. High quality studies like this take a lot of effort from the entire study team. Thanks to all of you for your hard work "

NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group

25/03/2026

Earlier today, we were delighted to surprise Critical Care Nurse, Leah with the Employee of the Month award for February.

Jen Taylor, Director of Nursing for LHCH & Broadgreen Hospital shared Leah's nomination which said:

"The Critical Care team are very proud of Leah who is worthy of recognition this month. Whilst on her second driving lesson she was stopped at the zebra crossing and witnessed a man collapse in the street. Leah immediately commenced CPR until paramedics arrived. Her quick thinking, skill and actions showed remarkable courage. Leah has truly gone above and beyond in her role. She truly needs praise for having shown her dedication to her nursing duties, compassion and care."

Well done Leah for your quick-thinking and life-saving skill which made such a difference.

23/03/2026

We are pleased to share that the latest edition of ‘LHCH Matters’ – the newsletter for LHCH patients, staff and community is OUT NOW.

Inside you will find out more about:
- our pleasing results in the latest NHS Staff Survey 2025
- our Knowsley Community CVD Cardiac Rehabilitation team who deliver cardiac rehabilitation sessions across the borough of Knowsley to improve health outcomes for our patients.
- our Surgical Care Practitioners who reached their 1000th procedure milestone for Endoscopic Vein Harvesting which is a minimal access surgical approach.

You can access this now, and more, on the news pages of our website.

21/03/2026

We are proud to support , a campaign from celebrating the city’s diversity and reaffirming our collective stand against racism.

Find out more, unite against racism and share facts, not myths: https://liverpoolexpress.co.uk/thisisliverpool/

20/03/2026

We are exceptionally proud of colleagues who attended The Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting in Belfast earlier this week.

Cardiac and thoracic surgeons, junior doctors, senior surgical registrars, advanced practitioners, and nurse consultant attended the event and presented innovative work, shared learning, and best practice with surgical colleagues from across the UK whilst supporting each other.

A special congratulations to the following colleagues who were presented with the following prestigious national awards at the conference:

Mr Neeraj Mediratta, Cardiothoracic Surgeon who received the 2026 ‘Silver Heart Trainer Award’ in recognition of his exceptional training of peers in heart surgery.

Ms Francesca Gatta, Surgical Cardiothoracic Registrar who received the 2026 ‘Golden Sternum Trainer Award’ recognising excellence in training and being the best trainee trainer.

The Cardiothoracic Surgical Advanced Clinical Practitioners team were presented with the ‘Excellence for Innovation in Practice Award 2026’ for their outstanding work on developing and embedding an innovative ward attender clinic for post-operative cardiac patients. Enabling earlier discharges, surveillance post discharge, and review of patients with post operative concerns.

12/03/2026

Congratulations to Justin Chiong, Cardiology Specialty Registrar and Academic Clinical Fellow in Cardiology who has been awarded a Clinical Research Training Fellowship by the British Heart Foundation.

This is an impressive achievement and even more so as it’s the first time a fellowship of its kind has been awarded to a researcher at LHCH. The prestigious grant will provide the funding for the research costs and consumables necessary to deliver the DYNAMITE-VT study. The DYNAMITE-VT study aims to improve the way we treat Ventricular Tachycardia (VT) for our patients, we hope that by better guiding ablation, we can reduce recurrence, hospitalisation, the need to redo procedures, and defibrillator shocks for patients.

Dr Vishal Luther, Consultant Cardiologist (pictured left) said:
“We are thrilled that Justin has been awarded this Clinical Research Training. The award, from British Heart Foundation, recognises the high level of quality research carried out at LHCH.

"LHCH has an international reputation for pioneering VT research. Dynamic Voltage Mapping was developed and initially evaluated here at LHCH. The DYNAMITE-VT study represents the next stage of this work and testing this technique prospectively through a randomised controlled trial."

You can read the full story on the news section of our website.

10/03/2026

To coincide with International Women’s Day, which we celebrated earlier this week, we’d like you to meet Dr Archana Rao. Dr Rao is a known to colleagues as Archie and is a Consultant Cardiologist specialising in devices and heart failure. She shared:

“When you think about hands-on medical specialties, cardiology is at the forefront of that because you follow the patient journey. This is certainly what I do as a Heart Failure and Device Specialist.

“My work begins as soon as the patient is referred with shortness of breath, assess them and treat them with medical therapy. I’m interacting with the wider heart failure team and, if needed, we offer the patient a cardiac device. I implant and follow up these devices.

“I’ve found my perfect job. I’m able to be a medic by assessing the patient, planning for them, and then largely carrying out that plan.”

Dr Rao admits her career journey has not been easy, but well worth it for a career that has been hugely important and meaningful:

“It's certainly not been easy, because as overseas doctors, my husband and I were trying to build a career with a young child, with no family support in the country. It's been challenging but very worthwhile.

An advocate for cardiology, Dr Rao feels strongly about inspiring the next generation of cardiologists.

“I think for me, the journey has been one of nurturing relationships, training the juniors to become able colleagues, and succession planning as we take on the next challenge. I think inspiring people to just do what they see as a worthwhile career and accept there will be sacrifices to be made. If it’s worthwhile to you, that's your decision and that's what you do.”

You can read more about Archie, her inspirational career journey, achievements and hopes for the future in our third instalment of our ‘Meet the Specialist’ series which is available to read now on the news section of our website.

02/03/2026

We are delighted to share that our latest Employee of the Month winner, Debbie Heseltine, was presented with January's award earlier today. Debbie is a well-known face at LHCH from carrying out the key role of Switchboard Team Leader.

Debbie was surprised by Rachael McDonald, Director of People for LHCH & Broadgreen Hospital who shared that Debbie had been nominated by multiple colleagues who had highlighted:

"We often talk about employees going the extra mile to support patients, families and staff. Debbie has done this to an exceptional degree and has shown great resilience and leadership. She has supported her colleagues, our department and indeed the wider hospital ensuring the switchboard continues its 24/7 operation despite difficulties faced. Her quiet efficient manner has made the environment a positive one to work even when Debbie and colleagues worked extra duties to ensure the services retained a good quality service. We have all appreciated Debbie for what she has done. She always has a smile and a caring attitude – nothing is too much trouble.”

Well done Debbie. We are all really proud of you. 👏

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https://www.lhchcharity.org.uk/, http://www.lhch.nhs.uk/

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