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Website- Bupa Platinum consultant
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Fee assured
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Verified account
- Open Referral network
Specialises in
- General cardiology
- Interventional cardiology
Offers
- Face-to-face consultations
- Video and telephone consultations
About me
Medical Qualification: MB BS, DMRD, MRCP
Year of Registration: 1998 ( GMC ) 1992 (MB BS) 1998 ( MRCP )
GMC Number: 4662006
Career History:
Trained as a specialist in Cardiology in the North-West, Midlands and London Rotation for over seven years. Undertook two years of active clinical research in the Lancashire Cardiac Centre and University of Liverpool.
Formerly clinical lead for the Cardiac Network of Lancashire and Cumbria
Currently work across both hospitals at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and the Lancashire Cardiac Centre in Blackpool, undertaking angioplasty and stent insertion.
Specialist Areas:
• Chest pain/coronary artery disease
• Coronary angioplasty/stent (PCI)
• Palpitations/arrhythmia
• Pacemaker insertion.
• Breathlessness/heart failure
• Hypertension
• Faint/blackouts/syncope
• Cardiomyopathy
• Valvular heart disease
• Pericardial disease
• Hyperlipidaemia
Areas of interest
Assessment of chest pain; Breathlessness; Palpitations; Dizzy spells; High blood pressure; Heart failure; Angiography; Angina; Valvular heart disease; Coronary stenting; Echocardiography; Arrhythmias; Angioplasty; Pacemaker insertion
Medical secretaries
- Ush Coomer
- 17 Royton Drive Whittle-le-Woods CHORLEY PR6 7HJ
- 07877 104073
- somnath.kumar@nhs.net
Anaesthetists worked with
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Dr Somnath Kumar has worked with Dr Roberto Mosca at the following hospitals:
- Spire Manchester Hospital (1-5)
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Dr Somnath Kumar has worked with Dr Senthil K Kanniah at the following hospitals:
- Spire Manchester Hospital (1-5)
Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)
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K6513
Adult cardiac catheterisation - radial access (including coronary arteriography/catheterisation of right/left side of heart/contrast radiology) - (5-50)
Spire Manchester Hospital (1-5) Ramsay Fulwood Hall Hospital (1-5)
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X5020
External cardioversion - (1-5)
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20142
Insertion of implantable ECG loop recorder (including reporting) - (1-5)
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K6010
Cardiac pacemaker system introduced through vein (dual chamber) - (1-5)
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20143
Removal of implantable ECG loop recorder (including reporting) - (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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K6511
Adult cardiac catheterisation - femoral access (including coronary arteriography/catheterisation of right/left side of heart/contrast radiology) - (1-5)
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BB906
ExCon - Further Discretionary Payment - (1-5)
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AA961
Coronary angiography proceeding to angioplasty on the same day, +/- insertion of stent - radial access - (1-5)