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A two-day course run by Dr Ramrakha is for interventionalists who would like to start or expand their transradial interventional practice. The course combines high-impact didactic presentations, taped live cases, state-of-the-art medical simulation, angiographic review and cadaver lab training to provide an immersive educational experience. This course is designed to provide comprehensive exposure to transradial…

Reducing the nation’s blood pressure and cholesterol levels helped prevent over 20,000 people from dying prematurely from coronary heart disease according to a new study. Between 2000 and 2007 deaths from coronary heart disease in England fell by 38,000. Around 20,400 of those were attributable to reducing the population’s blood pressure and cholesterol levels. The…

Having high cholesterol in your 30s and 40s could have a long-term impact on your heart health, according to a study. Research, published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, found that for every decade you have elevated cholesterol between the ages of 35 and 55, your future risk of heart disease may increase by…

February is Heart Month and this year the British Heart Foundation are urging people to take at least 10 minutes a day to help improve their own heart health as well as support their annual fundraiser, Wear it. Beat it. There are currently seven million people in the UK living with cardiovascular disease, which includes…

Unexplained blackouts are still a clinical problem because symptoms are intermittent and unexpected. Ambulatory ECG monitors do not always provide the answer.  Longer-term monitoring can be carried out using the Medtronic Reveal® Implantable Monitor.  This small device is a revolutionary breakthrough for the investigation of patients with fainting attacks or other transient symptoms such as…

National Heart Month raises awareness of the UK’s biggest killer – cardiovascular disease. The British Heart Foundation web site contains further details of national and local events, including the Wear Red Day on the 7th February, www.bhf.org.uk

Many people make New Year’s Resolutions, a common one being to make lifestyle changes and improve their health. This can be difficult to do alone and campaigns such as BMI Healthcare’s Big Health Pledge offer valuable help and support. The five big preventable health killers – heart disease, stroke, cancer, lung and liver disease – account for…

Dr Ramrakha is working with Inject Media Ltd to produce an exciting new web site and a series of videos about the Chiltern Hills Heart Clinic and the cardiac investigation tests he carries out. These will be available on the new site and via YouTube.  It was amazing how much equipment the film crew managed…

The Oxford Handbook of Cardiology, 2nd Edition, has been Highly Commended in the Cardiology section in the BMA Medical Book of the Year Award 2013. Dr Punit Ramrakha, Jonathan Hill and Oxford University Press were presented with a Highly Commended Certificate at the awards ceremony at BMA House on the 17th September 2013.  Dr Ramrakha…

The Clinic is regulated by the Care Quality Commision. A routine inspection on the 8th March 2013 showed our service was meeting all CQC national standards.  Click on the following link to see the full report http://www.cqc.org.uk/directory/1-144381271?referer=widget1