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Northern General Hospital

Region: Yorkshire & Humber
Trust: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Services provided: Adult Cardiac Surgery and Thoracic Surgery


Northern General Hospital
Herries Road
Sheffield
S5 7AU

About the unit

Cardiothoracic surgery at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals is housed in a self-contained, purpose built unit opened in 1997. Serving the 1.8 million people of South Yorkshire, we perform around 1000 cardiac procedures and 750 thoracic procedures per year.

Services provided

Adult Cardiac Surgery Thoracic Surgery

Access

Cars are allowed to drop off patients and relatives right at the door of the Chesterman Wing. There is easy wheelchair access through wide automatic doors. There are several pay and display car parks on the Northern General Hospital site, many within easy walking distance of the Chesterman Unit.

Visiting hours

Visiting times for the wards in the Chesterman Wing are 3-5pm and 6-8pm.

Contact

Tel: 0114 2434343

Trust Website: http://www.sth.nhs.uk/our-hospitals/northern-general-hospital    

Adult Cardiac Surgery

The Cardiothoracic Centre is based at the Northern General Hospital, providing local, regional and national services in Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, and Thoracic Surgery.

Our services are all contained within the purpose-built Chesterman Wing; which provides top quality, modern facilities for the management of heart and lung disease, enabling our multidisciplinary teams to work together to provide holistic, integrated treatment for patients.

We provide a comprehensive range of services for the management of all aspects of Adult Coronary Heart Disease, heart valve disorders, diseases of the heart muscle and heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias, inherited heart disease, as well as the surgical treatment of lung disease including lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chest wall conditions.

Our services benefit from being part of a large and thriving University Hospital, with links to, and support from, the Sheffield Vascular Institute, the Sheffield Kidney Institute, the Sheffield Thoracic Institute, the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University.

Consultants

Quality Assurance Survey

This hospital has been part of the Cardiac Centre Quality Assurance Survey, and its latest individual results are shown below. To view additional national data, see the Cardiac Unit and Outcome Data page in the Professionals section.

This unit has reviewed its outcomes for the last quarter.

Cardiac Audit Status regional and national

Each section has a maximum score of 5

This chart was produced on 31 March 2024.

Thoracic Surgery

Consultants

Outcomes Audits

This hospital has been a part of the following outcomes audits, please click on any outcomes audit to see their data:

National Lung Cancer Audit – 2017

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