Follow ups at local hospital after stent

[Duvetdays15]

Hi I had a stent fitted at St Thomas' London. Its been 6 months. I've had a telephone appointment with the cardiology team since. They have now booked me a ecg at St Thomas. I was wonder if anyone has transferred their care back to their local hospital. It's a long train journey to go just for an ecg, they have said the follow up with consultant wouldn't be at the same time but a different appointment another day. Have you seen a local cardiology team rather than keep travelling into London?

[richard_jw]

I live in Surrey, and at one point, I had tests under a cardiologist in Royal Brompton in London.It was done via a request from my GP for a second opinion. So it's not quite the same as your case.

I think that there should be no problem in transferring to a local to you hospital.

It might be worth finding out how good the facilities are more locally. For instance, some hospitals don't have catheterisation labs.

[nilmonisikdar40 in reply to richard_jw]

I did not have the procedure you had. I had a pacemaker quite a while ago st Thomas Hospital and for the first follow up they like to check themselves but no problem after that. Check with you your local if they have the facilities as mentioned by Richard.