Dr Bhavesh Sachdev

Dr Bhavesh Sachdev is a leading consultant cardiologist in Reading, who specialises in chest pain, coronary artery disease and stenting, alongside palpitations, atrial fibrilation, high blood pressure, heart failure, healthy heart and prevention and inherited heart disease. He privately practices at Spire Dunedin Hospital and Berkshire Independent Hospital, while his NHS base is Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.

Dr Sachdev has subspecialised training in interventional cardiology. He completed dedicated interventional programmes at Imperial College Hospitals NHS Trust in London, serving as Senior Interventional Fellow at St Mary's Hospital and The Hammersmith Hospital. He also undertook an interventional fellowship at Clinique Pasteur in Toulouse, France under the supervision of Dr Jean Fajadet.

His procedural skills encompass simple and complex angioplasty and stenting via radial and femoral routes, intravascular imaging (IVUS/OCT), physiology-guided management (FFR/iFR), rotablation and shockwave therapy for calcific arteries, and CT coronary angiography. He performs ASD and PFO closures and provides leadership for atrial fibrillation management across the Royal Berkshire Hospital and West Berkshire GP services. Additionally, he manages difficult-to-control hypertension and leads the Renal Denervation Programme at Royal Berkshire Hospital.

Dr Sachdev was awarded the prestigious British Heart Foundation Shillingford Fellowship for research in inherited heart muscle disease (cardiomyopathy) at St George's Hospital Cardiovascular Unit, London. He is widely published in this area and has presented at major international scientific meetings. Additionally, further fellowships include the Nellen Fellowship at Groote Schuur, Cape Town, South Africa, and senior interventional fellowships at Imperial College Hospitals. His interests extend to cardiovascular risk assessment, heart age evaluation, and heart disease prevention strategies.

He holds FRCP and MRCP status from the Royal College of Physicians (London) and is a member of the British Cardiovascular Interventional Society. Dr Sachdev is also accredited in multi-slice CT angiography, and has developed and edited a contemporary series on cardiovascular intervention in a peer-reviewed journal publication.