About Jaydeep
Dr Sarma is a Consultant Cardiologist with many years of experience in the NHS and Private Sector.
He grew up in the beautiful town of Harrogate in North Yorkshire. He qualified from Cambridge University and undertook general medical training in specialist centres across the UK. He won a highly prestigious Wellcome Trust Clinical Training Fellowship to explore the cellular mechanisms of heart disease at Edinburgh University for his PhD. Dr Sarma was awarded a British Heart Foundation Advanced Training Scholarship to the OLVZ Hospital in Aalst, a leading European cardiology centre, before returning to the UK as a consultant.
Dr Sarma is now a leading NHS Consultant Cardiologist at the Wythenshawe Hospital’s North West Heart Centre, part of Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The North West Heart Centre is one of the UK’s top cardiac centres, providing specialist cardiac services to over 3 million people and the heart transplant service for the North West of England.
Dr Sarma runs regular clinics providing gold-standard care for patients with heart problems, including chest pain, shortness of breath, dizziness, blackouts, high blood pressure and palpitations.
Dr Sarma works closely with expert colleagues who specialise in many other areas of medicine, including diabetes, kidney disease, and cancer treatment. This helps ensure that every aspect of your care is addressed alongside your heart condition.


Other Expertise
Dr Sarma is dedicated to sharing his expertise through teaching and training. He believes doctors should speak openly about their outcomes and share lessons they have learned. He developed national guidelines and training courses and established the first forum to analyse patient cardiology safety incidents at Wythenshawe Hospital in 2008. These changes have delivered greater transparency when discussing critical incidents within cardiology.
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Dr Sarma has co-written national guidelines, including the NICE guideline [NG185], for Acute Coronary Syndromes, which aim to improve survival and quality of life for people with a heart attack or unstable angina. Dr Sarma is a frequent expert contributor to NICE technology appraisals for cardiovascular medications and devices.
Working as an Expert Witness
Dr Sarma undertakes legal work as an expert witness working with McCollum Consultants, the UK’s leading chamber of clinical expert witnesses.
Research
Dr Sarma is involved in research and was awarded his PhD as a Wellcome Trust Clinical Training Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, studying molecular mechanisms that underpin coronary artery disease. Dr Sarma participates in major international conferences, presenting original research data. As faculty for several international interventional and general cardiology meetings, Dr Sarma has demonstrated specific techniques to numerous other consultant colleagues and trainees. Dr Sarma is involved in large international clinical trials and publishes in high-impact clinical journals.
Clinical Leadership
Dr Sarma has held managerial roles in the NHS as clinical director and lead for cardiology clinical governance, focusing on continuously improving the quality of services and safeguarding high-quality care. Dr Sarma is a Joint Clinical Lead for the Cardiovascular Division of Health Innovation Manchester, which delivers Manchester’s Academic Health Sciences Centre programme. Dr Sarma is a founding council member for NHS England’s North West Clinical Senate and has led hospital service reviews on behalf of NHS England.
Teaching & Training
Dr Sarma is the course director for the Catheter Lab Emergency Medical Simulation (CLEMS) Course, which teaches doctors, nurses and other clinical staff how to care for patients in an emergency. He co-authored the UK national guidelines on managing emergencies in the cardiac catheter laboratory, published in the renowned UK cardiology journal ‘Heart’.
Dr Sarma has co-supervised clinical PhD students and teaches medical undergraduates, postgraduate trainees, and allied health professionals.