The integrated heart failure team is made up of staff from Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital. Each locality in Southwark and Lambeth has their own dedicated heart failure specialist community nurse and consultant cardiologist with two pharmacists who work across Southwark and Lambeth.
GPs can contact their locality team directly for advice. For details of how to refer new patients into the service, please see our referrals page.
Who to contact for advice
For same day advice on the management of confirmed heart failure patients contact your locality heart failure specialist nurse.
For service queries and comments, contact Silapiya Smith, lead heart failure specialist nurse (acute and community):
Email: Silapiya.Smith@gstt.nhs.uk
Telephone number : 020 7188 9760 via the Acute Heart Failure Team administrator
Mobile number: 07787 878 659
For medications advice, adherence or polypharmacy reviews, or to book register reviews, education sessions and virtual clinics contact heart failure clinical pharmacists, Clare Thomson and Gayle Campbell:
Email: gst-tr.khpheartfailurepharmacists@nhs.net
Mobile: 07918 338 862
For all heart failure nurse specialist referrals contact Yvonne Blondell, Service coordinator:
Email: gst-tr.khpcommunityhf@nhs.net
Tel: 020 3049 4652
Dedicated heart failure locality teams
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South West Lambeth
Sue Piper, consultant cardiologist
Janet Oppong, community heart failure nurse specialist
Mobile: 07784 359 973
Email: janet.oppong@nhs.net
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South Southwark
Sue Piper, consultant cardiologist
Nasa Emode, community heart failure specialist
Mobile: 07918 338 750
Email: nasa-marie.emode@nhs.net
Please note that nurse specialists will occasionally rotate and cross-cover localities.
The integrated heart failure team is made up of staff from Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital. Each locality in Southwark and Lambeth has their own dedicated heart failure specialist community nurse and consultant cardiologist with two pharmacists who work across Southwark and Lambeth.
GPs can contact their locality team directly for advice. For details of how to refer new patients into the service, please see our referrals page.