I see patients who are affected by a wide variety of heart conditions and my particular expertise is in interventional cardiology. This includes coronary angiography, angioplasty/stent insertion, and pacemaker implantation. I also run a specialist multidisciplinary heart failure service. My main patient base is from the local area (London and Hampshire) but I do see patients from the rest of the UK and overseas. Expertise I have more than 20 years of experience as a general cardiologist running specialist heart failure, coronary disease and valve clinics. In my NHS department we see more than 12000 new out-patients per year with all types of cardiac conditions as well as many hundreds of in-patients with emergency needs. Reasons for assessment

• Chest pain
• High blood pressure
• Palpitations
• Murmurs
• High cholesterol
• Breathlessness
• Fainting/collapse
• Worrying family history of cardiac disease
• Conditions diagnosed and treated
• Coronary disease
• Hypertension
• Arrhythmia
• Cardiomyopathy
• Heart failure
• Valve disease
• Investigations

Like the other members of the Cardiology specialty at The Physicians’ Clinic, I have access to all non-invasive and and invasive cardiac investigations nearby in central London.  

Dr Carl Brookes is a medical graduate of Oxford University, who went on to pursue his clinical training at St Thomas’ Hospital, London. He then embarked on postgraduate specialist cardiology training at two major London teaching hospitals with a strong reputation in managing heart disease: the Royal Brompton Hospital and the Hammersmith Hospital. He holds a Doctor of Medicine research degree from Oxford in which he investigated the function of the right ventricle and, in particular, its relation to interventricular communication.

Dr Brookes was first appointed as Consultant Physician and Cardiologist in Hampshire in 2000. In 2005, he was Divisional Director of Emergency Services and in 2012, when the North Hampshire Hospital and the Royal Hampshire County Hospital merged, he became the Divisional Medical Director for Medical Services. The cardiology department he oversees treats 12000 new patients per annum and offers a full range of non-invasive and invasive cardiac investigations. This includes a 24/7 primary PCI (percutaneous intervention) service for patients having heart attacks. Dr Brookes is a member of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society, the British Cardiac Society and the British Society of Heart Failure. He is also an examiner for the Royal College of Physicians.

Consultant Cardiologist and Director of Emergency Services: Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust.

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Availability for Consultations Mon: Tue: Wed: Thu: In Clinic / 3 – 8pm Fri: Sat: *other times may be available for request

Dr Carl Brookes has a financial interest in the Devonshire Diagnostic Centre Limited

Self Pay Initial consult: £250 / £300 if second opinion with review of previous medical notes/results Follow up: £165 Insured Initial consult: Within the schedule of charges for specific insurance companies* Follow up:Within the schedule of charges for specific insurance companies* *If your policy covers consultations, there will be no shortfall to pay (but you may have an excess on your policy). Please also note that some policies do not cover consultations – always check your policy conditions or contact with your insurer as necessary.