Heart valve services
Referrals
We accept referrals from GPs and other health professionals.
GP referrals
All GP referrals should be made using the NHS e-Referral system (e-RS).
Valve clinic referrals
Tertiary referrals
Tertiary referrals must be made on the Electronic Vetters Service (e-VS).
Please address your referral letter to one of our consultants.
- Dr Jane Hancock
- Dr Julia Grapsa
- Dr Karine Grigoryan
- Professor Ronak Rajani
Our consultants will triage your referral.
Referrals sent from other hospitals must include a completed inter-provider minimum data set. Please send one within 48 hours of the referral.
Referral criteria
We accept referrals for:
- anyone with significant cardiac symptoms, or
- a significant heart murmur
We do not accept referrals for:
- people with a soft ejection systolic murmur and a well-heard second heart sound
Infective endocarditis referrals
Tertiary referrals
Tertiary referrals must be made on the Electronic Vetters Service (e-VS).
Please address your referral letter to one of our consultants.
- Dr John Klein (microbiology)
- Dr Jane Hancock (valve endocarditis)
- Dr Julia Grapsa (valve endocarditis)
- Dr Karine Grigoryan (valve endocarditis)
- Professor Ronak Rajani (valve endocarditis)
- Professor Aldo Rinaldi (device endocarditis)
Our consultants will triage your referral.
Referrals sent from other hospitals must include a completed inter-provider minimum data set. Please send one within 48 hours of the referral.
Referral criteria
We accept referrals for:
- endocarditis with heart failure
- endocarditis with severe valve incompetence
- endocarditis with structural destruction (abscess, perforation or fistula formation)
- prosthetic valve endocarditis
- endocarditis with embolic or neurological complications
- endocarditis in patients with an implantable cardiac device
- staphylococcus aureus endocarditis
- endocarditis caused by resistant organisms, such as fungi
- culture negative endocarditis
Structural heart disease referrals
Tertiary referrals
Tertiary referrals must be made on the Electronic Vetters Service (e-VS).
Please address your referral letters to:
- aortic stenosis requiring intervention, [email protected]
- mitral or tricuspid valve disease requiring intervention, [email protected]
Our consultants will triage your referral.
Referrals sent from other hospitals must include a completed inter-provider minimum data set. Please send one within 48 hours of the referral. If this is not available, please email [email protected].
Referral criteria
We accept referrals for people who have symptomatic or prognostic heart valve disease that needs intervention, or assessment for intervention.
Urgent referrals
If your patient needs an urgent transfer, please phone 020 7188 7188 and ask for the on-call cardiology team as well as sending a referral form.
Contact us
Valve clinic
Phone: 020 7188 1047
Email: [email protected]
Structural heart disease
Phone: 020 7188 1093
Email: [email protected]hs.uk or [email protected]
Last updated: February 2023