Pulmonary hypertension

Our specialist pulmonary hypertension (PH) service is a shared care service, working with the nationally designated PH centre at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London. We can diagnose you and provide you with expert lifelong care, treating and managing the pulmonary hypertension (high blood pressure within your lungs) that your condition causes.

Working as a shared care service means you benefit from the expert opinion within the Royal Brompton Hospital but receive specialist PH care and treatment closer to home. Your treatment plan will be tailored to you and managed in Southampton. As well as reducing the distance and time you spend travelling, this way of working also speeds up investigations, reduces the time you have to spend in hospital, and helps us with introducing specialist medicines for you, and continuing to manage them.

We work closely with Dr John Wort, Lead Consultant in Pulmonary Hypertension from the Royal Brompton Hospital. Dr Wort and Dr Brown (UHS) provide monthly joint clinics together here at UHS. We also have video-link meetings between Southampton and the Royal Brompton and can call on Dr Wort for expert guidance as needed. This helps to keep your care close to home but ensures you are provided with the best expert care.

We investigate and care for patients with PH from all over Wessex and are pleased to accept referrals from our regional colleagues.

Meet our team

To find out about our consultant Dr Wort please click on the link below.

https://www.rbht.nhs.uk/specialists/dr-john-wort

Clinical nurse specialist Michelle Ritchie.

Patient information

The www.phauk.org (Pulmonary Hypertension Association UK) is a good source of information and support.

Contact us

Call Michelle Ritchie, clinical nurse specialist, on 023 8120 4921 or 07768 465 023, or email uhs.pulmonaryhypertension@uhs.nhs.uk.