Heart of Harefield : The Story of the Hospital

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Harefield has the feel of a village and some residents don't believe they should be included within the ULEZ boundary However, at Harefield Hospital my team and I offer a comprehensive minimally invasive programme that includes coronary bypass, valve repair and replacement and surgery for arrhythmia. We routinely perform a wide range of these procedures – and have done so for the past 15 years. Sir Michael Shersby, MP for Uxbridge from 1972 to 1997, is buried in the churchyard along with his widow Lady Barbara.

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Warfarin and other similar medications can be problematic for patients. For example, if they need further surgery, they will require infusions of other medications to counter the thinning effects of the drug. An innovation which has gone hand in hand with less invasive techniques is beating heart, or ‘off pump’ coronary surgery, which was developed in the 1990s and introduced at Harefield Hospital in September 1996. The Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) took a trip to the hospital, only a five-minute walk from the village’s minuscule town centre. Despite catching many doctors and nurses in the canteen, it was clear the strength of feeling about ULEZ was not so strong amongst hospital staff as it was in Harefield at large. None of the people LDRS spoke to said they had been directly impacted with most having compliant cars or opting to take public transport. Senior nurse Diogo Gomes commutes from High Wycombe to the hospital but says his car was already ULEZ compliant.In 1929 Harefield became part of the Municipal Borough of Uxbridge, then in 1965 the London Borough of Hillingdon.

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Harefield is associated with three recipients of the Victoria Cross. Two booklets in the Reference section of Harefield library give details of the three recipients of the award.

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Breakspear House (Breakspears), a Grade 1 listed building, originally constructed in the 17th century also falls within Harefield.

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one-centimetre incision, rather than a cut of about a metre. The vein extracted is then used as a graft in exactly the same way. The topic of ULEZ is like blood in the water to people in Harefield, with Mr Gupta’s account prompting residents coming in for a lunchtime coffee to give their two pence on the matter. One resident launched into the conversation, saying: “I don’t know anyone that thinks ULEZ is a good idea.The resident added she fears what will come next after ULEZ. She said: “It's never going to stop here. We all know it's going to be pay-per-mile next. Look at how much money they spent putting all those cameras up, you think [ Transport for London ] put all of those up for a few non-compliant cars? Of course not." The heart remains beating, removing the need to stop the heart during the procedure. This technology allows the surgeon to stabilise part of the heart and operate on the congested arteries.