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Website- Bupa Platinum consultant
- Fee assured
- Awaiting verification
- Open Referral network
Specialises in
- General cardiology
- Interventional cardiology
About me
Professor Roby Rakhit qualified from Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School (imperial College), University of London, with a first class honours intercalated degree in Pharmacology. He completed his general cardiology training in London as a rotating Cardiology Registrar (fellow) at the Hammersmith, Royal Brompton and St. Marys hospitals. Funded by the Wellcome Trust, he completed a two-year doctorate (MD thesis) at the Rayne Institute, St.Thomas` Hospital on the cellular physiology of nitric oxide in conferring myocardial protection against ischaemia. Prior to being awarded his Certificate of Specialist Training he undertook a prestigious British Heart Foundation International Fellowship where he undertook further advanced interventional training and clinical research at the Swiss Cardiovascular Centre, Bern under the supervision of Professor. Bernhard Meier. In 2004 he was appointed as Consultant Cardiologist to the Royal Free Hospital & Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London. In 2008 he was elected to fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. In 2018 he was promoted to Associate Professor of Cardiology and 2020 and elected to Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology. In 2020 he was promoted to Professor of Cardiology at UCL. He is former clinical director and Divisional Director of Cardiovascular services at the Royal Free.
Areas of interest
Chest pain; breathlessness; palpitations; blackouts; heart murmurs; high blood pressure; cholesterol; heart attack; angina; acute coronary syndrome; cardiovascular risk assessment; general cardiology; hypertension; valve disease; hyperlipidaemia; cardiovascular prevention and risk; cardioembolism and stroke, vasovagal syncope,
Medical secretaries
- Caroline Kuzmanovic
- Hospital Of St. John & St. Elizabeth Loretto Cottage 60 Grove End Road LONDON NW8 9NH
- 020 3370 1003
- 020 3370 1004
- info@robyrakhit.co.uk
Anaesthetists worked with
- Dr Jonathan Simon
Fee Assured
- Dr Amit Chawla
Not Fee Assured
Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)
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20365
Follow-up out-patient consultation - remote - (1-5)
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K6582
Adult cardiac catheterisation - radial access (including coronary arteriography/catheterisation of right/left side of heart/ contrast radiology) - with pressure wire (including fractional flow reserve measurement) - (1-5)
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K6513
Adult cardiac catheterisation - radial access (including coronary arteriography/catheterisation of right/left side of heart/contrast radiology) - (1-5)
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X3510
IV sedation administered by operator - (1-5)
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K5020
Coronary angiography proceeding to angioplasty on the same day, +/- insertion of stent - femoral or brachial access - (1-5)
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