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Dr Daniel Keene
Imperial College Healthcare Private Care - Cardiology
How does research and innovation support private cardiac care?
Dr Daniel Keene, Consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist, explains how research and innovation strengthen private cardiac care in this video, covering Imperial’s academic links, advanced treatments and how research-led expertise benefits patients. This offers practical, patient-friendly guidance for those considering private care.
Transcript
We're really lucky here that many of the clinicians that work at Imperial College Healthcare Private Care are also clinicians with exposure to Imperial College, which is one of the greatest research institutions globally.
And in combination, it provides one of the only academic health sciences centres in the UK.
What that means is that treatment at Imperial College Healthcare Private Care is delivered by clinicians who are at the cutting edge of their field, involved in research, developing new tests and new procedures, and patients that come for care here get access to those clinicians and potentially those procedures earlier than others, or that the clinician has more experience having been doing those procedures for longer.
Patients also, and you, get access just by nature of the clinicians that work here to the clinicians that are at the cutting edge, formulating national and international guidelines, for example, as well, to make sure that you really are being given the up-to-date best care possible.