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Cambridge Cardiovascular Prevention Clinic · CUH Affiliated

Heart-health care that actually feels like care.

We’re a specialist Cambridge clinic for people with high blood pressure, raised cholesterol, or worries about their heart — looked after by senior consultants from Cambridge University Hospitals who help write the UK’s national hypertension guidelines.

You don’t need a GP referral — most of our patients book themselves in.

Cambridge University Hospitals•Consultant-led care•Self-pay & private insurance•Advanced diagnostics
Expertise in hypertension

Deep expertise in high blood pressure.

Professor Ian Wilkinson, one of our consultants, is President of the British and Irish Hypertension Society and has contributed to UK hypertension guidance. Our consultants have advised on national cardiovascular prevention work and are active in hypertension research.

You're seen by consultants whose day-to-day work is high blood pressure and cardiovascular prevention.

30+
Years of expertise in hypertension
BIHS
President of British & Irish Hypertension Society
NHS
Consultant experience within NHS cardiovascular services
UK
Contributors to UK hypertension guidance
About the clinic

The kind of clinic you wish existed.

We help patients whose blood pressure has been hard to control, who’ve been told their cholesterol is high, or who simply want a thorough, expert look at their heart-health risk — without feeling rushed through a 10-minute slot.

How we work
Always a consultant

Every appointment is with one of our senior consultants — never a trainee.

The right tests

We can arrange the scans, monitors and blood tests you need — quickly, and only when they’ll genuinely help.

Safe and regulated

Same standards, governance and oversight you’d expect from the NHS — because we live there too.

Seen quickly

Most patients are seen within 5–7 working days of getting in touch.

Cardiometabolic medicine · emerging area

Weight and blood pressure are closely linked. Assessing them together is an important part of modern cardiovascular risk reduction.

Weight and blood pressure move together. Evidence shows that even a modest 5–10% reduction in body weight is associated with meaningful reductions in blood pressure — for some people this can support a reduction in medication doses, always under clinical review. The reverse is also true: unrecognised hypertension and its knock-on effects on insulin resistance make sustained weight change much harder.

Cardiometabolic medicine is a fast-moving area of preventive cardiology. Recent evidence, including large cardiovascular outcome trials, indicates that assessing weight, blood pressure and metabolic risk together — rather than in isolation — can be relevant to a person's long-term risk of heart attack, stroke and heart failure.

Our cardiometabolic service assesses weight, blood pressure, insulin resistance, cholesterol, fatty liver and family history in one consultant-led plan — combining practical lifestyle change, targeted blood-pressure and lipid treatment, and, where clinically appropriate following individual assessment, a discussion of the licensed prescription options relevant to your situation.

Our consultants

A specialist team.

Meet the team →
Professor Ian Wilkinson
Professor Ian Wilkinson
Professor of Therapeutics · Hypertension specialist

Ian has spent more than 30 years helping people with high blood pressure — particularly when it’s been hard to control, when it appears at a young age, or when something less obvious is driving it. He currently leads the British and Irish Hypertension Society and helped write the national guidelines that GPs and specialists across the UK use today. Patients tell us they appreciate that he explains things clearly, takes time to listen, and never makes them feel rushed.

Dr Joseph Cheriyan
Dr Joseph Cheriyan
Affiliated Associate Professor · Hypertension, cholesterol & cardiovascular risk

Joseph is a consultant physician with extensive experience in hypertension, lipid disorders and cardiovascular risk. He looks after patients with high blood pressure, raised cholesterol, and a higher risk of heart problems — and is also actively involved in the research that brings newer, better treatments into everyday practice. He is known for being approachable, methodical, and for taking the time to make sure each patient really understands what’s going on and what their options are.

Dr Johann Graggaber
Dr Johann Graggaber
Affiliated Assistant Professor · Hypertension, hormones & metabolic health

Johann is a Consultant Physician at Cambridge University Hospitals with a special interest in patients whose blood pressure or heart-health problems are linked to hormones, weight or metabolism. He works closely with the rest of the team when a patient has more than one thing going on at once. His patients describe him as calm, careful and reassuring — and very good at explaining the bigger picture without using jargon.

Navazh Jalaludeen
Navazh Jalaludeen
Consultant Physiologist in Echocardiography

Navazh leads the heart-ultrasound (echocardiography) service at the clinic. An echocardiogram is one of the most useful and least invasive tests we have — it shows how the heart muscle is moving, how the valves are working, and how well the heart is pumping. Getting it done well, and read accurately, makes a real difference to your diagnosis and the plan that follows. Navazh is one of a small number of physiologists in the UK accredited at the highest international level in echocardiography. He oversees the technical standards that make our centre an EACVI-accredited echo centre — meaning every scan you have here is performed and reported to international best-practice standards. Patients tell us he is calm, easy to understand, and very thorough.

What to expect

From getting in touch to getting answers.

A simple, friendly process. You get in touch, we book you in, you see one of our consultants, and you leave with a clear plan written in plain English — and a copy goes to your GP.

What happens at your visit
01
Get in touch

Fill in our short form or call us — we get back to you within one working day.

02
Your appointment

A relaxed, hour-long consultation with your consultant.

03
Tests, if needed

Scans, monitors or blood tests — but only if they’ll actually help.

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Your plan

A plan that fits your life, written down for you and shared with your GP.