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Cardiac Investigations Unit
Step into Healthcare Science
Changing perceptions of services delivered by a modern NHS  is the goal. Portsmouth Hospitals Trust in Partnership with Education Business Partnership (EBP) and Aimhigher invited school children to meet healthcare science staff from Queen Alexandra’s Hospital and open their eyes to the range of professions and roles within Healthcare Science workforce.  
 Over a hundred Year 10 and 11 students from the Portsmouth area visited St James’s Hospital, Southsea.  Departments, included the Cardiac Investigations Unit, Pathology, Renal Department, Radiography and Clinical Engineering .
For the first time the cardiac department is on one site, and is larger and more specialised than ever.  The new department has been designed to set standards in cardiac care.  The facilities provided by Cardiac Investigations Unit include three cardiac catheterisation laboratories, three exercise treadmills, three echocardiography rooms, three ECG rooms, two ambulatory rooms, rhythm analysis rooms, pacing follow up facilities, dedicated transoesophageal echocardiography unit and reporting stations.  All clinical facilities have direct links to cardiac outpatients, the cardiac wards, including coronary care care unit and accident & emergency.  Better, larger open planned waiting areas for patients with improved access.

Queen Alexandra’s Hospital

Primary Schools’ Science Fair                                                                                   2011
 HMS Warrior was the venue for the latest careers event for school children in South East Hampshire. Onboard were the representatives from a wide range of professions, including chemists, emergency services, armed forces, clinical engineering and cardiac physiology.  Approximately three hundred; 10 and 11 eleven year olds from Portsmouth, Gosport, Fareham and Havant were invited to the historic dockyard to experience the types of jobs available.  Staff from the Cardiac Investigations Unit, QAH demonstrated the types of investigations that are performed in their department and the career opportunities available.  They also showed the pupils the importance of looking after their hearts.  
The event was organised by the Education Business Partnership who help young people to prepare for their futures, and the Cardiac Investigations Unit is proud to be part of this venture.