A guide to your local cardiac rehabilitation programme (St Cross)
Ajmaline Test
Discharge advice after your Dobutamine stress test
Discharge advice after your Exercise Stress Echocardiogram (ESE)
Discharge advice after your Transoesphageal Echocardiogram (TOE)
Discharge Advice Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)
Discharge advice: Atrial fibrillation ablation
Discharge advice: Atrial flutter ablation
Discharge advice: Coronary / TAVI Angiogram, Coronary Angioplasty and/or Stent / Valvuloplasty, Left and Right Heart Catheterisation and heart attack treatment
Discharge advice: Elective Cardioversion
Discharge advice: Electrophysiological studies and Radiofrequency ablation treatment
Discharge advice: Pacemaker/ Implantable Defibrillator (ICD)/ Biventricular Pacemaker (CRT) Implantation and box change
Electrophysiological studies and ablation treatment
Having a CRT Pacemaker fitted
Having a Pacemaker fitted
Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)
Injectable Loop Recorder Discharge Advice
Injectable Loop Recorder Implant
Patient’s Guide to Coronary Angiogram, Angioplasty and Stent
Patient’s guide to a Dobutamine Stress Echocardiogram (DSE)
Patient’s guide to an Exercise Stress Echocardiogram (ESE)
Patients guide to a Transoesophageal Echocardiogram (TOE)
Tilt table tests
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON BLOOD TESTING DUE TO COVID-19
If you are experiencing symptoms associated with COVID-19, e.g. fever, loss of taste or continuous new cough, please DO NOT attend for a blood test.
Click on the map for information about phlebotomy clinics in Coventry. You can book an appointment online at the locations in red.
Please book an appointment before attending for a blood test. Click on the ‘Book Online’ button above. Booking an appointment helps patients, their carers and family members to plan their hospital visit better, helping to reduce clinic waiting times and enabling patients to be seen much more quickly.
Location: Outpatients Department, on the ground floor. Opening hours: 8am-4.45pm, Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays).
Children under 16 years old will need to book online here.
Please book an appointment before attending for a blood test, click on the ‘Book Online’ button above. Patients from Rugby and the surrounding areas are able to access the Friends Blood Taking Unit at the Hospital of St Cross.
Referrals for blood tests can be from GP's, practice nurses or from hospital consultants. Patients are also able to leave other samples, such as urine, which have been collected at home, at the hospital's Pathology Reception.
Location: Near Brookfield House, just off North Road - map here. Opening hours: The blood taking clinic sessions for adults and children are listed below:
Monday -Friday 7am-4:45pm Appointment only
Wednesday Evening 5pm-7pm Suspended due to COVID
Saturday Morning 7am-10pm Suspended due to COVID
April 2020 NEW - This Clinic is now by appointment. Please book an appointment before attending for a blood test. Click on the ‘Book Online’ button above.
Address: Stoney Stanton Road, Coventry CV1 4FS Location: Access is via the main doors, the Phlebotomy team are in Area A. Opening hours: Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays). 8am–4.45pm
Glucose Tolerance Test (GTT)
Specialist Tests - There are a small number of specialist tests where blood needs to be taken on a hospital site as the sample must be transferred to the laboratory rapidly for the test to be undertaken. Click here for a list of these specialist tests and to find out more.