Specialist lung and heart hospital, offering private treatment in London. Their heart and lung specialists are experienced experts in their respective fields and also provide paediatric surgery for conditions such as heart disease. The Royal Brompton lung and heart hospital treats both UK and international patients.
Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust is a partnership of two specialist lung and heart hospitals which are known throughout the world for their expertise, standard of care, and research success. As a specialist trust they only provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease. This means their lung specialists, doctors, nurses and other healthcare staff are experts in their chosen field, and many move to their hospitals from throughout the UK, Europe, and beyond, so they can develop their particular skills even further.
Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust carry out some of the most complicated lung and cardiac surgery at their two specialist lung and heart hospitals, and offer some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the world. Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust specialises in heart disease, cardiac surgery, and paediatric surgery among many others. The Trust has a world-wide reputation for the diagnosis and treatment of heart and lung disease, treating NHS and private patients from all over the UK as well as international patients from around the globe.
Private treatment at the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
The Royal Brompton Hospital offers private treatment in London. Conveniently situated in the Chelsea area, the specialist lung and heart hospital is well served by the London Underground and bus routes and is close to the amenities of London.
Harefield Hospital is situated in Harefield, Middlesex and is easily accessible from the M40 and M25. The nearest underground stations are Rickmansworth and Uxbridge. Both are about a 20 minute taxi ride from the hospital.
Services for international patients
The Royal Brompton & Harefield Private Patients Centre is the UK’s largest cardio-respiratory centre and an international centre of excellence and welcomes patients from all around the world to benefit from their leading clinical and support services. The Private Patients Centre offers their international private patients a personalised, world class service that is entirely tailored to their religious, spiritual and cultural needs. Their service is delivered by experts and led by experts.
At the Private Patients Centre they understand that you may be nervous before your visit to hospital and your family and friends will also be concerned. Staff understand that travelling abroad for health care may cause additional pressure and stress, and a new city and a foreign language may be a daunting prospect. Their main concern is your health, well-being and peace-of-mind.
Liaison officer
Bespoke services are provided by the liaison officers at Royal Brompton & Harefield Private Patients Centre, in line with your cultural, religious and language needs.
The liaison officers can help you in many ways. They can advise you on appropriate specialists and can make arrangements to take you to and from the airport. They can also arrange appointments and admission to the hospital, as well as helping with financial matters, through liaison with embassies, international insurance companies and other organisations.
While you focus on your health, the liaison officers will make sure that your family receives information and support. The officers will answer questions and support you and your family. Read more about Royal Brompton Hospital's Arabic liaison officer.
Rooms
All the private wards at Royal Brompton Hospital benefit from comfortable single occupancy rooms with en-suite bathrooms, and complementary toiletries are also provided. They are equipped with private safes, fridges and televisions which screen domestic and international channels. The rooms are all equipped to ensure that your medical needs are met at all times.
Cuisine
The hospital provides meals freshly prepared on site by their dedicated catering service. They are able to cater for a variety of special diets and cuisines including Halal. Meal options include meals suitable for diabetic, weight reducing, healthy eating and vegetarian. They are pleased to cater to particular requests from patients whenever possible.
Customer services
Private patients at Royal Brompton Hospital arrive confident that they will receive top quality care and treatment around the clock. Care is constantly provided in comfortable surroundings in private wings within the main hospital buildings. The private patients centre has its own team of customer service and administration professionals to attend to your needs. They can help with arrangements like:
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transport to the hospitals, including airport pick-up and drop-off
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accommodation for your family and friends close to the hospitals
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booking interpreters
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your financial arrangements
The dedicated world-class facilities include private outpatient clinics for appointments with your consultant and fully equipped private inpatient wards with their own high dependency units. These are equipped to intensive care standards in case this level of support is necessary following your procedure.
Further information
Heart and lung expertise
The specialist lung and heart hospital has more than 1,600 staff, five operating theatres and four catheter laboratories. It has 295 beds, including 48 for surgery, 93 for respiratory patients, 48 for cardiology, 34 paediatric, 20 for intensive care and 12 for paediatric intensive care.
Heart and lung specialist staff
Royal Brompton & Harefield consultants, highly skilled in the treatment of both adults and children, are all specialists in their respective fields with a great wealth of experience between them. This experience has enabled the Trust to pioneer a number of new and effective treatments including stenting, ablation (to correct over-fast heartbeats) and, for respiratory problems, lung volume reduction.
Every private patient can be confident that they will have access to the most comprehensive range of advanced surgical and medical facilities that are only available from a large, specialist NHS Hospital.
The Royal Brompton Hospital has an international reputation for the treatment of lung disease, the result of over 160 years of experience. The lung and heart hospital is a national and international leader in the treatment of heart conditions such as heart disease, with large research trials leading to significant developments in the area.
Lung conditons
The Royal Brompton Hospital is home to Europe's largest centre for the treatment and management of cystic fibrosis. The Royal Brompton Hospital's lung specialists see both UK and international patients suffering from asthma and chronic lung conditions including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) from across the country.
The Royal Brompton Hospital's adult congenital heart disease unit was the first of its kind in Europe and remains the largest.
The hospital's leadership in both these fields allows it to attract the best lung specialists and medical staff from across the world. The hospital's consultants and lung specialists work and teach internationally and publish research papers that set national and international medical standards.
Should they need it, Royal Brompton Hospital's UK and international patients are supported by dedicated adult and paediatric intensive care units. The hospital has seven dedicated adult critical care consultants and one of the country's largest academic research programmes in intensive care medicine. It is also one of the few hospitals in the country to have a Professor of Intensive Care Medicine.
The Royal Brompton Hospital has invested significantly in the latest imaging technology such as CT scanners, which, in many cases, enables the diagnosis of conditions such as heart disease without the use of invasive procedures. Royal Brompton Hospital acquired the UK’s first ever dedicated cardiac CT scanner in 2005, which allows for the diagnosis of coronary disease at an earlier stage than ever before. The hospital is the largest cardiac magnetic resonance centre in the world and over 50 percent of the UK’s cardiovascular magnetic resonance scans (high-definition scans of the heart) are undertaken there.
Why choose Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust for private lung or cardiac surgery?
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They are the country's leading provider of complex surgery of the chest and lungs
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They are Europe's top-ranked respiratory research centre and their cardiac, cardiovascular and critical care teams are rated in the top three most highly cited health research teams in Europe
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They look after over 26,000 patients of all ages on their wards and see over 90,000 patients at their outpatient clinics
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They carry out over 8,500 cardiac surgery (heart surgery) procedures such as angiograms, angioplasties, electrophysiological procedures and the fitting of pacemakers
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They treat over 1,100 people who have blocked coronary arteries (the arteries leading to the heart) and carry out around another 1,500 heart operations every year
