Cardiovascular Diagnostic Centres (CVDC) Staff
Welcome to South East London CCG Hub.
Xyla Elective Care is a nationwide CQC registered cardiology diagnostics services provider, works collaboratively with South East London CCG to deliver community cardiology diagnostic services to Lambeth’s local population.
These services are being delivered at Cardiovascular Diagnostic Centres (CVDCs) across the borough and consist of the following diagnostic tests: 12 Lead ECG recording and interpretation, Ambulatory ECG Monitoring, Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) & Home Blood Pressure Monitoring (HBPM).
On this page, you’ll find useful information on the services. This includes the Standard Operating Procedures for each of the investigations, training information and other useful guidance around the referral and operational pathways. There is also a list of contacts for help and support.
Information for CVDC Staff
Contact information for all clinical service enquiries:
- Phone Number: 02 0376 0777
- Email: communitysupport@xyla.s.acgr.k8s.wehavezeal.net/diagnostics
- For urgent querries, please contact: 07 7882 68232
Vishal Mahandru -Community Cardiology Diagnostic Services Manager
- Mobile: 07 8667 94712
- Email: Vishal.Mahandru@xyla.s.acgr.k8s.wehavezeal.net/diagnostics
Raechelle Young – Senior Community & Service Development Manager
This service is being carried out at 3 Cardiovascular Diagnostic Centres (CVDCs).
There are 3 interim Cardiovascular Diagnostic Centres to undertake this service.
The services will be reviewed and assessed in the first 6 months to determine what if any service improvements are required, as well as whether they meet the needs of referrers and the patient population.
Your CCG have ratified a specific referral pathway regarding which CVDC each GP Practice should refer their patients into for diagnostic tests.
This is outlined in the document, Lambeth GP Practices CVDC Referring Sites. This section also outlines the EMIS Patient Referral Pathway as well as Service Timelines for Referrers & CVDCs.
Do contact the relevant Cardiovascular Diagnostic Centre (CVDC) if you need information regarding appointments. For all other information regarding this service, do contact Xyla Diagnostics directly.
Lambeth GP Practices CVDC Referring Sites
Directions for each CVDC are outlined below:
EMIS Referral Pathway
An EMIS referral pathway allows for a swift, seamless, and safe process. Your practice can immediately access available appointments at your appointed CVDC and book your patients for an appointment. The CVDC then views these appointments and has automatic access to your completed clinical referral form, they then in turn return the complete report within EMIS where a task is raised for your attention.
EMIS Patient Referral Workflow ABPM
EMIS Patient Referral Workflow ECG
EMIS Patient Referral Workflow HBPM
GP Practices Referrers Guide to Cardiovascular Diagnostic Centres (CVDCs)
Service Timelines for Referrers
There are clear referral to report times, which form part of this service that we are all required to adhere to. Referrers are to ensure that once they refer a patient for a diagnostic test that they are booked in for their appointment within a specific timeline. CVDCs are to ensure that they return completed reports to you within a specific timeline and Xyla Diagnostics are to ensure that they turn around reports back to the CVDC within those timelines so that the CVDCs meet these.
This is demonstrated within this document.
The service has been set up with robust clinical pathways to ensure patient safety and that clinical standards are met.
The is a clearly defined cohort of patients who can be referred into this service, Inclusion Criteria, as there is a clearly defined cohort of patients that should not be referred into this service, Exclusion Criteria.
Further pathways are detailed within this section which outlines the ECG Reporting and Turnaround schedule, the Out of hours Referral Process and the Operating hours and Cut off Times regarding our remote clinical reporting.
Do contact the relevant Cardiovascular Diagnostic Centre (CVDC) if you need information regarding appointments. For all other information regarding this service, do contact Xyla Elective Care directly.
Inclusion / Exclusion criteria
Table 1 – ECG Reporting and Turnaround schedule
Maintaining quality standards are important to ensure best practice is achieved.
To support you the referrer, the ECG Report Template includes guidance to support you with your clinical decision making. In this section you have access to view, Example of the GP management report.
A RAG Algorithms Table is utilised to support clinical findings, and this can also be found here. Additionally, there are other quality processes which are stored in this section, to provide you with reassurance that the clinical service is governed from a quality perspective.
Do contact the relevant Cardiovascular Diagnostic Centre (CVDC) if you need information regarding appointments. For all other information regarding this service, do contact Xyla Elective Care directly.
Example of the GP management report
Table 1 – Red, Amber, Green (RAG) algorithm
Table 2 – Oversight Levels for 12 Lead and Ambulatory ECG Reporting
Table 3 – Consultant Lead Audit Levels for referral Thresholds
