Location and contact details Important information Opening times: 9am–5pm, including late On arrival at each appointment, please inform evening once a week and Saturday mornings. the reception staff that you are here. Please speak to one of the team for details. Willesden Centre for Health and Care Please contact the department if you are unable to Robson Avenue, Willesden, NW10 3RY attend or if you no longer require an appointment. Brent community By road: There is limited parking available at the centre. Street parking is available You may be seen by a male or female clinician. cardiology service on Robson Avenue and HarlesdenHIGH Road RD Information for patients, relatives and carers By bus: 6, 206 & 226 If you wish a chaperone to be present please Telephone: 020 3758 2021
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PARK WAY NORTON RD DON CHAPLIN RD NING TON ROBSON RD Brent HARLESDEN RD Clinical Commissioning Group Service overview Rapid access chest pain clinic The service design specifically caters for patients who: Our rapid access chest pain clinic service is for the Brent community cardiology offers a assessment of people with suspected angina. • are suspected to have or have been newly comprehensive consultant-led cardiology diagnosed with heart failure service with advice and appropriate Referrals are made when your GP suspects • have been recently hospitalised with cardiac investigations for patients aged angina, which is a chest pain that occurs with heart failure exercise and resolves with rest. Patients may be 18 years and older, registered with Brent • have a diagnosis of heart failure but are yet to referred as necessary for further tests. general practices. be on full treatment The service is provided by the Royal Free • have worsening symptoms of heart failure despite starting treatment London from two community venues, Heart failure Willesden Centre for Health and Care Heart failure is a condition where patients We also provide a home visiting service for heart and Wembley Centre for Health, allowing become breathless, tired and may have swollen failure patients who have difficulty getting to patients to be seen closer to home and legs due to problems with the pumping muscle clinics in the community or at the hospital . reducing the need for a hospital visit. of their heart.
The service offers treatment and This can be caused by any heart abnormality Cardiac rehabilitation management of long-term cardiology but is usually the result of a weakened conditions, including heart failure and heart muscle. Our cardiac rehabilitation programme involves exercise and information sessions that help valvular heart disease. Coronary artery disease is the most common you get back to everyday life as efficiently and cause of this condition, but there are many others successfully as possible after a heart attack, We offer a direct access GP referral service for causes including genetic conditions that run heart surgery or procedure. The rehabilitation non-invasive cardiac diagnostic testing, such as: through families. programme helps people make any necessary • ECG monitoring changes, avoid further health problems • echocardiography Our community heart failure service is designed It also helps high risk patients take steps to Investigations and treatment for appropriate to meet the special needs of patients who are prevent heart disease and stroke. cardiac symptom conditions, including: coping with heart disease. • chest pain • shortness of breath • high blood pressure • palpitations/dizziness • atrial fibrillation