Consultant Paediatric & Fetal Cardiologist
GMC Number 3070387
Telephone Contact details
NHS Patients: 0117 342 8853 Private Patients: 0117 230 2398
Professional Profile
Year qualified 1985
Professional memberships
- Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
- Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
- Member of the British Cardiovascular Society
- Member of the British Congenital Cardiac Association
- Member of the Association of European Paediatric Cardiology
- Interventional cardiac catheterisation for congenital and structural heart disease - which includes the closure of holes such as atrial septal defects, ventricular septal defects and patent arterial ducts
- Specialist balloon procedures of the pulmonary and aortic valves as well as the main arteries along with stenting of the pulmonary arteries and coarctation of the aorta
- Foetal cardiology - diagnosis and management of heart disease recognised in the unborn baby by ultrasound examination
- Telemedicine
NHS Hospitals
Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
Royal United Hospital Bath
Torbay Hospital, Devon
Professional Profile
Dr Tometzki undertook extensive training in general paediatrics and neonatalogy before concentrating on Paediatric Cardiology. He trained in prestigious cardiac centres in the UK namely Killingbeck Hospital Leeds, Yorkhill Hospital Glasgow, Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children Edinburgh. He then undertook a sabbatical at The University of California, San Francisco in Paediatric & Foetal Cardiology with Professor Norman Silverman. He was appointed as Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist in Edinburgh in 1999 but moved to Bristol later the same year.
Dr Tometzki is a Senior Paediatric Cardiologist at The Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. Bristol is now one of the largest Congenital Heart Services in the country with excellent results for both surgery and interventional cardiac catheterisation. Dr Tometzki is considered a regional expert accepting referrals from all over South West England and South Wales as well as further afield for his work in interventional cardiac catheterisation for congenital and structural heart disease as well as for fetal cardiology.
Fetal cardiology is a very specialised area of congenital heart disease with two specialists based in Bristol covering the majority of the South West of England. Much of this work is undertaken via telemedicine allowing remote diagnosis and counselling of couples without the need to travel long distances. Dr Tometzki is also an accomplished echocardiographer (ultrasound examination of the heart) for all ages from foetus to adulthood. He accepts referrals of patients with heart murmurs, faints (syncope), palpitations as well as screening for inherited cardiac disease in childhood/adolescence such as cardiomyopathy.
Dr Tometzki is an Executive Officer of the British Congenital Cardiac Association.
Dr Tometzki can arrange to see NHS and private patients in clinics at several NHS hospitals, namely St Michael's Hospital, The Royal United Hospital Bath & Torbay Hospital.
Private patients can also be seen at The Bath Clinic
Hobbies:
Rugby, Skiing, Photography.
Telephone Contact details
NHS Patients: 0117 342 8853
Private Patients: 0117 230 2398
Dr Vanessa Garratt DClinPsych
Professional Profile
Year qualified 2005
Professional memberships
British Psychological Society No. 084679
Health Professions Council No. PYL15368
NHS hospitals
Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
Professional Profile
Dr Garratt has undertaken comprehensive training in clinical psychology and completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology in Bristol in 2005.
Dr Garratt is currently a Principal Clinical Psychologist in the Paediatric Cardiac Service, Paediatric HIV Service and the National Barth Syndrome and Osteogenesis Imperfecta Services at The Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.
Clinical interests
Dr Garratt specialises in assessment and intervention of the following:
▪ Procedural Anxiety
▪ Coping and Adjustment to illness
▪ Complex trauma and post traumatic stress disorder
▪ Attachment disorders and associated relationship issues
▪ Mental health issues in adults and young people
▪ Intellectual ability (IQ assessments)
Assessment can take a number of forms including:
▪ Interviews with an individual client
▪ Family interviews with or without the client
▪ Formal assessments of a person's ability or functioning e.g. Intelligence, memory etc
▪ Observational assessments in a clinic setting
▪ School, home or work-based observations
▪ Collection of information from other professionals and carers
A full assessment of a person's needs is absolutely essential for any programme of support to be successful. If you wish to discuss whether an assessment or intervention would be appropriate for your child please contact her on the details below.
Dr Garratt can see private patients at the Paintworks in Bristol.
Telephone Contact details
Private Patients: 07970674062