Spire Healthcare - Driving Innovation & Enhancing Patient Journey
Spire Healthcare
Driving Innovation
Enhancing Patient Journey
The overview of health care has changed. An increasing number of patients shop around for health care, particularly if they require a more nuanced or complex procedure. Patients are more decerning and have easy access to information such as patient experience, timeliness of care, effectiveness and mortality rates. It’s no longer just about basic needs. The level of expertise, care, after-care and outcome is informing their choice to use private health care providers such as Spire Healthcare.
For more than a decade, Spire Healthcare has led the way when it comes to medical technologies, diagnostic and therapeutic options. The swift implementation of innovative tech and procedures allow Spire to better diagnose and treat their patients. Spire Healthcare’s unrestricted access to tech, treatments, and the best surgeons in the UK means improved quality and increased efficiency. When it comes to technological advancement, one of the principal benefits of integrating innovative tech into their clinics and hospitals is advancing their patients quality of life. Which is why Spire Healthcare has introduced the latest in technology for the treatment of atrial fibrillation, also known as (AF or AFib). Spire patients can now benefit from laser balloon ablation treatment. Furthermore, Spire is the only private health care provider offering this treatment in the UK.
AFib is the most common arrhythmia diagnosed in clinical practice. Though common AFib is a serious condition which can lead to stroke, clots, heart failure and other heart-related complications. Up until now, cardiologists have used a computer mapping system or x-rays to assist in (PVI) pulmonary vein isolation procedures. With the introduction of the Heartlight Excalibur, a laser ablation system with an advanced feature set, Spire Healthcare's cardiologists can directly see the anatomy they are working with. In general, isolating individual veins can take over an hour. With the Heartlight Excalibur Spire’s cardiologists can isolate a vein within three minutes. This next-gen bit of kit optimises the speed and magnitude of target tissue contact allowing surgeons to consistently obtain optimum antral positions. If you’re not a doctor simply put the Heartlight Excalibur allows for greater accuracy, decreasing the need for repeat ablations.
To survive private health care providers like Spire, have to offer the best. A watchful eye is always kept on improving their patient's journeys. Key elements of which are choice, access and getting things done in a timely manner. Take Spire Healthcare's new anaemia clinic run by Dr Seema Agarwal, a consultant specialising in iron deficiency. Although more than 4 million people in the UK are iron deficient an absence of information surrounding anaemia means symptoms are often dismissed, and diagnosis is trickier than it should be. (IDA) Iron-deficiency anaemia the most common type of anaemia occurs when the body no longer produces enough red blood cells. This, in turn, decreases your oxygen intake, which leaves you feeling run-down and fatigued. You may know that iron plays an important part in the production of haemoglobin, but did you know iron is also necessary to maintain healthy skin, hair, cells, and nails? Besides feeling exhausted other symptoms include paleness of skin, headaches, shortness of breath, a smooth or sore tongue, a reduced ability to fight infection, and a craving for ice, also known as ‘Pagophagia’. Spire Healthcare’s new anaemia clinic provides an alternative treatment for iron deficiency. Spire patients are able to access an iron transfusion directly into the vein. A rapid and effective treatment which delivers a stabilising dose instantly. You could spend weeks and months trying to balance your iron levels via dietary changes or iron tablets, or you could rebalance your iron levels in 30 to 60 minutes with a single transfusion at one of Spire Healthcare’s ‘Day-Case Units’.
Spire Healthcare is known for setting the standard for care and patient outcome across the UK. They offer the highest standards of clinical care and the flexibility of a personal service tailored to your needs.
To find out more about the anaemia clinic or laser balloon ablation treatment for AFib Spire Healthcare offer Please call 0161 516 6058.
For more information on Spire Healthcare’s services, therapies, treatments, specialists, and consultants please head to their website at www.spirehealthcare.com