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22 Jul

The CPET measures the function of your heart, lungs and muscles during exercise.

Dr Joy explains why you might be advised to have the test & what it tells healthcare professionals about your CHD 🥰

Watch the recording from our Hearts Together event: https://sfhearts.org.uk/members-area/webinars-and-videos/

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22 Jul

📢Calling all neonatal teams across the NW CHD Network. Please join us at our face to face neonatal cardiac study day
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22 Jul

Can you help in the testing of a newly developed education game about heart failure and associated kidney health? The game is focussed on adult patients or carers of adults.

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9 Jul

📢We want to hear what you would like in our easy read heart health information.
Your feedback will help create resources which are clear and accessible for all our patients who have Congenital Heart Disease ❤️

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Cardiac Maternity

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    Information on Cardiac Maternity Services
  • Who this information is for
  • Date Published
    2024-12-27

Cardiac Maternity

Cardiac maternity services in the North West are based at three main centres. These services provide specialised care for women with significant cardiac conditions before, during, and after pregnancy. They are based at:

  1. St Mary’s Hospital Manchester (The Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire GMEC)
  2. Liverpool Women’s Hospital (Cheshire & Merseyside C&M)
  3. Blackpool Victoria Hospital (Lancashire & South Cumbria L&SC)

The services at St Mary’s and The Liverpool Womens are also jointly run by the ACHD cardiology team and specialist nurses in our region who have expertise in supporting ladies with complex congenital heart disease.

How to make a referral

Referrals are coordinated by Maternal Medicine Centres (MMCs). These are based at:

  1. St Mary’s Hospital Manchester (The Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire GMEC)
  2. Liverpool Women’s Hospital (Cheshire & Merseyside C&M)
  3. Royal Preston Hospital for Blackpool referrals (Lancashire & South Cumbria L&SC)

Referrals can be made via the North West Maternal Medicine Network’s website.

Click here to make a referral

Each MMC has a different and unique referral process. The link provides information on how to refer and how to contact someone in an emergency. If clinicians are not sure which centre to refer an ACHD patient to – you can also call the ACHD Cardiologist on call via the switchboard at Liverpool Heart and Chest for advice 0151 600 1616.

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