Oxfordshire Heartfelt Appeal

'We have a world-class team here at the Oxford Heart Centre, and we need a world-class Cath lab to further enhance their skills and support our patients' Dr Sam Dawkins

Thank you for visiting this page about the Oxford Heartfelt Appeal.

We are asking for your help to raise £800,000 to create a new state-of-the-art Cath lab to help patients suffering from structural heart conditions receive the very best possible care.

The Oxford Heart Centre is a centre of excellence for cardiothoracic care, looking after over 20,000 patients from the Thames Valley area and beyond every year, many needing complex and life-saving care.

It was created 13 years ago, with much of the high-tech medical equipment funded by our charity through our original Heartfelt Appeal.

Today it has one of the largest specialist structural heart programmes in the United Kingdom, one of only a handful of centres performing some of the most complex procedures in the UK.

The catheterisation laboratories, to give them their full name, are used for minimally invasive heart procedures like angioplasties to widen the arteries; ablations for the correction of abnormal heart rhythms; repairing structural problems with valves and holes in the heart, as well as for patients who are too weak for major heart surgery.

But technology moves fast, and new innovations mean there is more we can do to help save and improve local lives.

Our NHS Trust has started a programme to upgrade the suite of specialist cath labs at the John Radcliffe, and we want to ensure they are equipped with the very best technology available – with much higher quality imaging which is particularly beneficial for complex structural interventions.

So we are asking for your help to raise £800,000 to create a new state-of-the-art Cath Lab to help patients suffering from structural heart conditions receive the very best possible care.

Our wonderful Oxford Hospitals Charity helped us so generously when the Heart Centre was originally created and we hope the charity’s supporters will be there for us again.

With your help we can fund the very best medical equipment and facilities to help cardiothoracic patients across Oxfordshire. Your donations and fundraising will make all the difference.