Essex Cardiothoracic Centre (CTC)
The Essex Cardiothoracic Centre (CTC) at Basildon Hospital offers a range of services for people who need specialist treatment for heart and lung conditions.
About the Essex Cardiothoracic Centre (CTC)
The Essex Cardiothoracic Centre (CTC) provides specialist treatment and care for people with heart or lung problems.
The centre has some of the most modern cardiothoracic (heart and lung) treatment facilities in the country. It was purpose-built to accommodate the highly equipped operating theatres and cardiology treatment rooms needed to provide world-class treatment and care.
The CTC is located at Basildon University Hospital and is able to treat a greater range of patients by having direct access to the renal support therapy, vascular surgery and surgical trauma teams in the general hospital.
Our facilities
- Four state of the art operating theatres, including a hybrid theatre for patients who require a procedure involving both cardiology and surgical input.
- Three cardiac catheter laboratories.
- Colne ward — a critical care ward with 22 beds, for people who need extra support immediately following their operation.
- Chelmer ward — a surgical ward, with 32 beds
- Roding ward — a cardiology ward, with 28 beds.
- Thames ward — a day ward for people who do not need to stay in hospital overnight following their procedure.
- En-suite facilities and individual bedrooms for patients needing less intensive nursing care.
- A café on the bottom floor which serves snacks and hot drinks.
Outpatients and appointments
The CTC outpatient department is on level A.
You will visit the outpatient department for appointments before and after your operation or procedure.
Outpatient services
- general and specialist cardiology clinics, including nurse led pre-assessment clinics
- one-stop clinics for cardiac and thoracic surgery
- anaesthetic pre-op assessment clinics
- post-op follow-up clinics
- adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) clinics.
Changing appointments for device checks
If for any reason you cannot make your appointment to have your device checked, it is important that you contact us and give us as much time as possible to reschedule. As a busy service we have limited spaces and can always fill empty spaces at short notice.
If you are eligible and need transport, contact our booking team who can arrange this for you on 01268 624900 extension 4516.
Contact
If you need to contact the outpatient team, call 01268 524900.
View accessibility information about this area on the AccessAble website at https://www.accessable.co.uk/mid-and-south-essex-nhs-foundation-trust/basildon-university-hospital/access-guides/outpatients-cardiothoracic-centre.
Preparing for your surgery or stay
Coming into hospital for an operation or procedure can be daunting.
To find out more guidance to help you prepare for your stay visit Preparing for your surgery or stay.
Information for families and friends
For information about visiting, gifiting and accessibility, visit Information for families and friends.
Cardiac rehabilitation
Cardiac rehabilitation is an important part of recovery following heart surgery and involves continuing support and guidance for patients and their family.
To find out more, visit Cardiac rehabilitation.
Pacemaker and ICD patients
If you have had a procedure with us, it’s likely that you will have a pacemaker and/or ICD implant.
To find out the answer to some common questions, visit Pacemaker and ICD patients.
Research and development
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The Essex Cardiothoracic Centre is a driver of cardiovascular and thoracic research across the region, and is developing as an internationally recognised research unit. [WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY REIGON, PLEASE? AND IS IT INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED? PLEASE CAN WE CHANGE TO A STATEMENT OF FACT?]
We are committed to delivering scientifically important, translational [WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?] research that benefits patients. Built on a foundation to provide world class patient care, the CTC includes many research-active clinicians in research programmes across:
- interventional cardiology
- cardiac electrophysiology
- cardiovascular and thoracic surgery
- perfusion
- anaesthetics.
As an active partner in the North Thames Local Research Network (CTC third highest recruiter) and our local Health Innovation and Education Cluster (HIEC) supports a number of research projects under the umbrella of the Cardiology Research Unit. [THIS DOES NOT MAKE SENSE, PLZ SIMPLIFY AND MAKE OUR CTC THE CENTRE OF THE STATEMENT AND INCLUDE WHAT THIS MEANS FOR OUR PATIENTS]. The unit is a joint venture with the Post Graduate Medical Institute at Anglia Ruskin University and includes the support of an MD and PhD fellow.
There are currently 15 studies recruiting patients and a further four studies where patients continuing to be being followed up have participated.
If you would like more information on any of the studies, please speak to your consultant or contact the research department at Basildon Hospital on 01268 524900 using extension 8902.
The Brook Suite, Nash Basildon (private care)
Our Brook Suite offers private patients access to the full range of heart, lung and respiratory treatments.
To find out more, visit Nash Basildon, Brook Suite Private Patient Unit.
Our services and support
Understanding cardiovascular surgery, physiology and imaging can be very confusing.
To help you understand the language around treatment and care, we’ve created the information places below to help you to get your head around it: