Community Cardiac Services

Our team of experts will support and care for you and your family if you’ve been diagnosed with heart failure. 

• We run our service from a variety of venues - they are listed on the right of this page, under Available Locations. Click on a location to find out a venue's contact details and how to get there.

What does your service do?

We treat patients with a diagnosis of heart failure.

We can offer you:

• Clinic and home visits: to assess and educate you, and optimise your medication
• Inpatient hospital visits: to assess you before discharge
• SOS response: if you become unwell, call us and we’ll come out to assess you to help prevent you from having to go to hospital
• Cardiac rehabilitation: a ten-week exercise programme adapted to your own ability. We will give you information about your condition and advice about how to self-manage it.

We can offer you these treatments and procedures as part of your care:

• Clinical assessment which includes blood pressure, pulse and oxygen saturation
• ECG
• 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
• Blood taking (venepuncture)
• 24-hour Ambulatory ECG monitoring
• Optimising your medication appropriate to your condition

 
Our team includes specialist nurses, healthcare assistants and GPs with special interests.

Who is the service for?

Adults (18 and above) living in the NHS Mid Essex area.

How can I access your service?

Referral process

You can be referred by any healthcare professional, such as your GP, consultant or clinic nurse specialist.

They can fax or email a referral using the contact details below.

Where and when

We run clinics at various times on weekdays from 9am to 5pm at these venues:

• Broomfield Hospital Chelmsford
• Halstead Hospital Rehabilitation and Podiatry Unit
• St Michael's Health Centre, Braintree
• St Peter's Hospital, Maldon

* Appointments must be booked. We also make home and hospital visits if necessary.

How do I contact your service?

For referrals and enquiries:

• Call our administrator on 01245 318886
• Fax us on 01245 318861
• Email (referrals only) at communitycardiacservice@nhs.net