Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital

Thomas Drive

L14 3PE

We are based at the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, in Merseyside. The M62 motorway reaches right till its doorstep thereby allowing for easy and speedy access from surrounding areas in the North west of England and North Wales.

Further details about the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital can be found HERE

For all NHS patients

Please use the Choose and Book facility available via your GP to consult Dr Gupta, or request your local cardiologist to refer you on.

An up to date idea of Dr Gupta’s outpatient and in-patient NHS waiting times can be found here. As a rough guide in May 2010 there is a 8-10 week wait for an out-patient consultation followed by a 10-16 week wait for in-patient procedures.

For all Medically Insured/ Self-paying patients

The facilities for these patients are housed in the newly refurbished Audrey Leigh Wing of the Hospital. This private wing contains consultation suites along with individual private rooms for in-patient stay.

Dr Gupta is also available for consultation at the Spire Liverpool Hospital (formerly known as the Lourdes Hospital), the largest private hospital in Liverpool. Details of the cardiology service at Spire Liverpool can be found HERE.

For patients living on the Wirral, Dr Gupta holds a weekly clinic at the Spire Murrayfield Hospital in Thingwall.

You can contact Ms Sharon Ngai directly for a private appointment although most medical insurance companies would insist on a formal referral from your GP to cover any in-hospital treatment. 

NHS or Private?

The treatment and the catheter laboratories used are the same for both NHS and private patients, and all patients can expect  a similar result from their procedure.

The main difference between the NHS and private routes of treatment is in the waiting times, with Private treatment being possible a few months earlier than on the NHS. Besides, private patients get individual rooms with en-suite facilities for in-patient stay rather than a ward bed. Also please note that as one of Dr Gupta’s responsibilities is to train junior medical staff, procedures on NHS patients are carried out jointly by Dr Gupta and the trainee doctor(s) while those done privately are performed wholly by Dr Gupta. Last but not the least, private patients have direct email access to Dr Gupta at all times via his Blackberry. Most patients find this easy accessibility to be particularly useful in the follow-up period post ablation.