Dr Edward Leatham
MA Cantab, MBBS, MD, MRCP
Consultant Cardiologist and Physician
With over 28 years’ experience in cardiology and internal medicine, Dr Leatham has been practising in Guildford since 1998. He served as Lead Clinician and R&D Lead at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, where he established some of the UK’s earliest advanced cardiology services in a district general hospital, including the one-stop chest pain clinic, diagnostic angiography and pacing service, transoesophageal echocardiography, stress perfusion echocardiography, cardiac MRI, and cardiac CT.
He is co-founder of the Heart and Stroke Trust Endeavour (HASTE) charity, which funded and built the cardiac wing at the Royal Surrey County Hospital. Until October 2021, he was one of six consultant cardiologists responsible for the NHS Guildford Coronary Care Unit (CCU), and also held honorary consultant roles at Frimley Park NHS Trust and the Royal Brompton Hospital in London. Over his career, he has treated many thousands of NHS and private patients with angioplasty, coronary stents, and complex pacing devices.
Dr Leatham is Director and Founder of the Surrey Cardiovascular Clinic and, since 2019, Co-Founder and Managing Director of HeartScanDirect (https://www.heartscandirect.com/), one of the UK’s leading cardiac CT providers specialising in AI-processed scans and among the few cardiologist-led CT services in the country. He is the author of the weekly blog and podcast series The Naked Heart, and since 2021 has worked under his personal motto: “I used to stent, now I prevent.”
In 2024 Dr Leatham first published heart related stories under the Naked Heart series banner. In Oct 2025 following a move into cardiometabolic health, he paused Naked Heart for a new series on Metabolic Health which will be hosted by VAT-TRAP.com podcast https://feeds.transistor.fm/vat-trap and Youtube channel www.youtube.com/@VAT-TRAP. The VAT-TRAP 4 book series is due to be launched in January 2026.
- Specialist Areas:
Adult Cardiology
Blood test interpretation
Blood pressure assessment
Cardiac CT angiography
Cardiac imaging
Echocardiography
ECG monitoring and interpretation
One-stop chest pain clinic
Outpatient consultation and testing
Pacing and devices
Stress Echocardiography
Stress ECG
Cardiometabolic health
- Conditions seen and treated:
Atrial fibrillation
Breathlessness
Cardiomyopathy
Cardiovascular risk factor management
Chest pain/angina
Heart murmur
Heart valve disease
Hypertension (raised blood pressure)
Palpitation or arrhythmia
Syncope
Metabolic syndrome